I've checked the full GRO index & the freebmd entry is correct. Unfortunately no matter what permutation of name I use on the GRO site - it shows "not found"
I have used the "similar & phonetically similar" options & even showed him as a female but no joy.
Think you may have to ring the GRO
Spoke to the GRO, they are as perplexed as to why they don't have the info, as the sites like ancestry etc, get their info from them...
I am at a total loss as to my next move....
Well....this could be why....
''He compared them to FreeBMD, a website run by the charity Free UK Genealogy which has published its own transcriptions of the GRO's original printed indexes.
Mr Calver found that over 7,000 birth entries from volume 4A of the July-September quarter of 1881 had been duplicated in volume 3B, whilst over 5,000 entries that should have appeared in 3B were missing.''
but then....
"Customers should be reassured that any issue with entries in the online index will not prevent them from ordering certificates from the General Register Office where they have identified the index reference number from another source."
