Why some births & deaths are not to be found
- From: Peter <peter.thomas8899@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:01:11 +0100
A reason why some births/deaths are not to be found in the indexes!!
From the Western Mail Saturday June 14th 1924.
Thomas GETHING 24, blacksmith's striker, and Percy POTTER, 25,
collier, both pleaded guilty to having broken and entered the
guardian's office at Abergavenny on January 9, and having stolen £60
in money, a register of births, a register of deaths, and a large
number of certificates, the property of his Majesty's
Registrar-General, and further with having unlawfully destroyed the
registers and certificates.
Mr. Ralph THOMAS prosecuted, and said after breaking into the office
the men threw the registers and certificates into the river, with the
result that all the contents had drifted out to sea, and there were a
number of births and deaths of which Somerset House had no record.
The Judge said that GETHING had had every leniency shown him. In
consideration of their having spent four months in gaol awaiting
trial, GETHING would be sent to prison for fifteen months, and POTTER,
whose record was not to bad, for nine months.
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Peter Thomas
Researching: Hone - Oxfordshire & Glamorgan; Samuel(s) - Swansea, Llanelli & Gower;
Thomas - Morriston & Clydach; Harris - Aberdare & Gloucester, Pope, Parker, Broome - All Shropshire.
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