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From: Paul Benyon <>
Subject: Re: [DOR] Birth Certificates pre Civil Registration in 1837
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 22:57:45 +0100
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Hi Robert
This was for a later period, but Birth Certificates were also required
by boys entering the RN as Cadets, but where not available a suitable
declaration made before a magistrate appears to have been adequate:
The relevant part of the Admiralty Instruction reads as follows:
"6. the candidate will be required to produce a registrar's certificate
of birth or declaration thereof made before a magistrate."
Regards
Paul
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:32:23 EDT, wrote:
>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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