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From: "Stephen Hayes" <>
Subject: What happened in 1837?
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2004 04:16:12
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Roy Stockdill wrote in a message to All:

RS> In the Journal of One-Name Studies in 2003 I published an article
RS> on the frauds by Peter Park and illustrated a birth certificate
RS> from Liverpool of a child called Mary Bibby, supposedly born to an
RS> unmarried mother, Ellen Bibby in 1848. Neither ever existed - but a
RS> copy of that birth certificate was still in the GRO recordfs in
RS> 1996.

RS> And lord knows how many others there are of fictitious people!

And then there were the fictitious people who signed the registers at lectures
and classes at universities and the like -- aside from the obvious ones like
Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse there were some more plausible names, and somore
students went to some effort to build up a credible persona for such people --
subscribing to junk mail which was delivered to their colleges and so on.

Not to mention people in witness protection programmes, criminal aliases,
detectives' aliases, spies and the like and the like.

There are all sorts of records out there for people who never existed.

Sala kahle

Steve Hayes
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