Re: Birth cert quirk


"John Prentice" <johnp.usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi everyone.

I've found a little quirk on a birth cert. I'm collating all the
addresses in my putative ancestral tree, and one stands out as a
little
unusual. It's from 1905.

The addresses cited in place of birth (col.1), and informant
(mother)
(col.7) are the same. But...under "Name, surname and maiden surname
of
mother" (col.5), there is a different address quoted, in the same
town.

I'm not particularly used to seeing addresses cited in col.5 anyway,
but
this is definitely a bit strange. Oh, and none of the addresses
relate
to census data for the family, either side of the cert date.

Is this particularly unusual? Anyone care to postulate why the cert
has
been laid out like this?


If the birth address was a hospital, nursing home or even a relative's
house the mother could have thought she had to give her address *at
the time of the birth*, which wouldn't be the same as the address she
went to to raise the baby.

Don


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