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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Re: Time of birth stated on birth certificates
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:38:22 +0000
In-Reply-To: <00e501c2d96b$353e5240$dc7f86d9@oemcomputer>



>
>In the early years of registration, some registrars put the time on
>certificates as a matter of course, even if it was a single birth.
>
>I was in exactly the same position as you - my gg grandad's birth cert. had
>a time of birth, but I hadn't found another child of the same age, so I
>phoned the register office, explained the situation & a very helpful young
>man took my number & called me back to say he'd had a look & there hadn't
>been a multiple birth. The registrar was just very thorough !
Works in 1830s, even works sometimes in early 1840s. But by 1852 (was
it) things had noprmally been sorted out

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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