Chris/David/Anthony/Liz,
I would like your thoughts/advice on the following please because you have probably
already come across the same thing and come to some conclusion :-
You will already know that certain batches of death records do not show the age of the
deceased but give their full d.o.b. instead, which is a lot more helpful.
However, one would expect that where a specific date of birth is given on the death
record, that it would match up with the corresponding birth record for that person,
however, it looks to me as if around 25% of the male Catley's shown do not have a
corresponding birth record at all!
This becomes very obvious when looking at the 1970's death PRO lists which encompass
individuals born around the 1890 to 1920.
When I first came across this anomaly, thought that maybe it was because the person was
born abroad but there seem to be just too many instances for this to be a realistic
explanation.
Logic tells me to act on the death information re birth and add the individual to my birth
list with an annotation as to how d.o.b was obtained (ie not from GRO birth source) so as
not to confuse the situation.
What should I do?
Tim