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Subject: [DOR] Birth Certificates pre Civil Registration in 1837
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:32:23 EDT

Does anyone on the list know what form of birth certificates would have been
available pre 1837? The poet Coleridge obtained one in order to insure his
life, so there must have been a source. Did it depend on the family doctor
keeping records which could be accessed years later ? Presumably the church
baptismal records would not be acceptable evidence for the insurance company
since baptism was so often well after the birth.
( Could we have all replies on list please, since I am sure that others, like
me , have learnt so much from our kindly mentors in this way. You never can
tell just when such shared knowledge will come in useful, and it does all
add to the pleasure of the search to have the background glow of others'
experience lighting up the scenery of the past as we explore. End of purple
prose passage.)
Robert Hillier,
Poole
Looking for the origins of HENRY EARS and. PENNY PARSONS who married in 1806
in Bishops Caundle.

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