Legality of birth certificates

[hanes teulu]

Clicking on the name CARDIGAIN (sic - there's been an OCR misread, but understandable) will deliver the correct page and will automatically zoom in on the relevant column.

I should have added "Automatically zooming in on the relevant column after the page is delivered is, let's say, inconsistent"

I have also discovered I directed jillyg to the article as far back as Sep 2013.

[andrewalston]

Sometimes it's the baptism entry which is the fib.

I've just transcribed a 1933 baptism with an unusual surname. I looked for the birth registration to check spelling.

I found the birth with the mother's maiden name rather than the unusual one. In 1939 the father seems to have been 100 miles away and married to someone else.

The child seems to have married in the late 1950s with an extra middle name, matching the father's surname, so may have known about their parentage.

[jillyg]

Thank you Hanes for your help.
Yes I have found the article before thank s to you.
I think, considering the court case, and the fact Elizabeth had two older children,they may not have married

[Andrew Tarr]

Sometimes it's the baptism entry which is the fib. 

Sometimes it can be the birth registration too.  My wife's Aunt Jane was born in 1910 and registered as John - Boy.  There is absolutely no doubt of the record, as the date, address and parents data are correct, and there are no other births of that surname in 1910.  One can only assume that (a) the recorder misheard 'Jane' and wrote John, assuming Boy; or (b) the parents hadn't checked the child's credentials and changed their minds later 

Not sure how it affected the legality of the certificate ....

[andrewalston]

I have a GRO certificate recording a death of a woman at age 45 in Liverpool in 1939.

It bears the text "CERTIFIED to be a true copy of an entry in the certified copy of a Register of Births".

I don't know whether it could be used as a legal record, but it was the information on it that I really wanted, not the colour of the stationery.