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
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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
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