Re: What do you think.

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:19:57 GMT, "Geoff" <NOJOY@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

NG,

Elsewhere I saw info concerning a Joseph Frazer given in the 1881 Lancashire
census as being born in Cheltenham (no county given) in about 1875.

Freebmd gives a Joseph Frazer's birth as being registered in Salford Lancs
in the Sept. qtr of 1874. There is no registration of a birth of a Joseph
Frazer in Cheltenham between 1870 and 1880 according to freebmd.

Less than three miles from Salford is Cheetham.

What is your opinion please of the possibility that the actual birth took
place in Cheetham LAN and not Cheltenham GLS?

For comparison (FWIW), I got a cert the other day for a child who'd
been given as 1m on the 1851 Chelsea census and born in Battersea,
Surrey. According to his cert, if accurate, he was then actually only
a week old so they probably knew where he'd been born. But he was
later registered as having been born in Chelsea.

Not a big distance but it seems possible that the claimed place of
birth for registration purposes was for convenience - just say he was
born locally and save hassle. I wonder how often that happened among
the less literate.
--
Phil C.
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