Hello Elizabeth & Ken - thank you
the case is getting muddier ... the records & dates I have are as follows / Birth
Certificate - dob 25 November 1843 / FreeBMD - IV Q 1843 / Application for certificate -
dob 15 October 1842 / and now this ...baptisms St. John & St. Mary Cardiff date of
baptism - 19 November 1843 (this is a photocopy of the register page obtained from LDS
many years ago).
This last one is really strange - it shows his baptism 6 days before he was born as per
the birth certificate OR a year after his birth according to the application.
I have decided that it might be a good idea to search for his marine records
pre-certificate - perhaps there was some sort of age restriction ??
thank you for reading ...
Helen
"Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines ~ it's
hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits" Robin Sloan
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:04:16 -0400
Subject: Re: [GLA] a discrepancy - opinions on what may be done?
From: elizhgene(a)gmail.com
To: nell1(a)sympatico.ca
CC: glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com
Some years ago, I had gotten so unconcerned about age that I made myself 3 years older.
When there wasn't so much need for the Government to "Know" All I think many
people missed a bit of age, add to the need to avoid fines as has been mentioned, I think
you could account for a lot of differences <G>
Eliz
Not Today and Not without a Fight
(Anon)
For all that has been, thanks.
For all that will be, yes.
(Dag Hammarskjold)
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Helen D'All <nell1(a)sympatico.ca> wrote:
Hello all - I have a birth certificate for Thomas Stockwood, born 25 November 1843 to
William Stockwood & Louisa Fullinlove. The birth was registered according to the
certificate on 3 December 1843 - there is a corresponding entry in FreeBMD.
I have just noticed that the same Thomas, in filling out his"Application to be
examined for an Engineer's Certificate of Competency" in 1865, records his birth
date as 15 October 1842 & have been unable to find a corresponding BMD entry. That
they are one and the same person, ie the son of William, is validated by many, many
documents covering his life as a ship's engineer, his subsequent death & the
placement of one of his children in the Muller Home.
At first I imagined there may have been some sort of reason, such as an age limit for a
certificate that might have caused him to fudge the date, but the time difference is so
small.
Does anyone have an opinion on perhaps the why - whether I should try to solve this (and
how?)
thank you ... Helen
"Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines ~ it's
hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits" Robin Sloan
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