Deed Poll

[maltingo]

Rosie
The parents were married jfm 1952 so you are possibly right they re-registered in JAS receiving a proper reference, 4B 76

Thanks for setting me on the right path.
regards

[AntonyMMM]

If the birth was re-registered after the marriage, then there should be another registration earlier, probably only indexed under the mother's name (but maybe under father's as well).

The other possibility is a simple late registration.

[maltingo]

Antony, Thanks for your input.
There are two children in question.
First child born with a certain Surname, in 1950.
The mother then marries in amj 1952 to a person who the second child ( born in the February)relates to and has the fathers surname.
Both of these children are then re-registered in jas 1952, the first child's surname now reads the same as the second child.
This seems to me done to keep both children with the same surname, but how would you be able to have a child and then re-register him 2 years later under another surname ?

[AntonyMMM]

Children don't have any surname at all on birth registrations until 1969, so what you are looking at in the indexes are the surnames of the parents (one or both depending on their marital status).

If you want to send me the details via PM I should be able to explain it for you.

[KGarrad]

It sounds like a re-registration under the Legitimacy Act 1926.

The Act allowed children to be legitimised by the subsequent marriage of their parents, provided that neither parent had been married to a third party at the time of the birth. In those circumstances, the legitimised birth was re-entered in the birth indexes for that year (sometimes many years after the original birth). The original entry would be annotated to refer to the new entry.

The act was modified by the Legitimacy Act 1959, which extended it to children whose parent(s) had been married to somebody else when they were born.

[maltingo]

KGarrad, Well put, Thank you for the info.
regards

[AntonyMMM]

I've replied to maltingo by PM - from the info they supplied to me this appears to be a combination of a re-registration (after marriage) and also a separate late registration, so quite a complicated one.

As always - you can't be certain of the details from index entries alone, and certificates would be required to know exactly.