Duplicate birth entries.

[Retriever]

I've come across someone recorded twice. The entries appear together and are duplicates except one has one middle name and the other two.

Apart from that, the only other difference is the page number for the single second name is 1372 and the one with two middle names is 1293.

Registration district, mother's mmn, etc., match. Has anyone come across this before?

[rosie99]

Which website is that on

[Retriever]

Firstly the FreeBMD site, then I checked the GRO.

[AntonyMMM]

If there are two separate entries then it should be some sort of re-registration.

Would need to see the details to comment further.

[Retriever]

The gentleman's name is Alfred Ames, born February 1914.

The GRO has him as Alfred William, page 1372, and Alfred William George on page 1293.

The National Register has him as Alfred G, with W added in red ink.

[AntonyMMM]

It is impossible to be certain just from the index entries, and you would need to get images/certificates from both, but I suspect that these are two different boys.

I see that there were two Ames/Burton marriages in Edmonton just before these births (in 1912 and 1913), and there is a death of an Alfred W Ames in the same district in 1915 (age 1)

[softly softly]

I had exactly the same issue back in late 1800’s. Turned out 2 brothers married 2 sisters and were naming , baptising children with same Christian names

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[rosie99]

Freebmd suggests that Alfred W died June qtr 1915 Edmonton RD (as mentioned by AntonyMMM) and Alfred WG probably married March qtr 1940 also Edmonton RD

[Retriever]

Now why didn’t I think of that! I’ll blame the heat.

Many thanks to you all for the interest/information.