Birth Certificate Enforcement

[Bookbox]

Just noticed that on a copy of one I have, albeit it was a scan from a relative and she's left off the annotation on the extreme left of the certificate.  There are numbers in two of the columns.

I've a local Register Office hand written copy of a death certificate where the surname was originally entered incorrectly, but was changed a few days after registration.  That includes a statement to the right with the full details of the change.

A good illustration of my point in reply #6.

[Robert Fletcher]

Wow! what a lot of replies thankyou everyone. In column 7 there is a corrected spelling error on the name with the numeral '3' circled. So that explains the word 'three'. Thanks again.

Robert....

[stanmapstone]

it's a numbered correction to the certificate.

Not to the certificate, but to the original registration, made at the time of entering. Corrections made later are handled differently.

All corrections of a minor nature occurring at the time of the entry have to be numbered, obviously to prevent someone coming along later and altering an entry.
For errors discovered within a month of the entry being made then the registrar in the presence of the relevant parties, or in their absence in the presence of the Superintendent Registrar and two other credible witnesses, corrected the erroneous entry by entry in the margin, without making any alteration of the original entry, and signed the marginal entry, adding date when the correction was made.

See Section 30 at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433089737559;view=1up;seq=91 which goes into detail about the correction of errors.

Stan

[lazydaisy]

Hello

Just to add that on my grand parents marriage certificate, there are 5 such amendments. Bride and groom had the same surname Bevan - prior to their marriage in 1917

The names of the Fathers were wrongly attributed, as were their status (alive or deceased) and occupations.

The family used to joke that maybe the poor Registrar ended up marrying himself  

LD