Genealogy Chat

Following on from my thread about typed certificates.... I have spoken to the G.R.O. today and she had a copy of the written record in front of her! She asked me was mine typed and i said yes and she had no idea why the original had not been scanned for me. Anyway, she reads the father's name as Thomas HEATON (same as daughter Susan Jane Heaton) and not HEATH as TYPED by someone on my certificate. She apologised and said will send me a copy of the original, but it makes me so cross cos if i had not queried it i could now be looking for and following a line of the HEATH family instead of the HEATONS. Something for me to keep an eye on in the future i guess. Incidentally, the witness is definitely a Elizabeth EATON, so again a name change for me to bear in mind. Anyone else had anything similar?

Anyone else also had similar problems and how can we avoid this in future?

Hi Linda

Yes I had similar when I first started doing my family history some years ago..

I ordered my gt grandmother's birth cert direct from Wiltshire Office...it was type written. It gave my 2x gt grandmother's maiden name as Longworthy. I was very naive in those days and spent ages looking for an Emma Longworthy.

I then realised that the informant of the birth was a Mary Ann Gaisford after further reasearch I found that Mary Ann was Emma's sister...their maiden name being Langworthy.

To be honest Linda I didn't do anything about it at the time so I don't know if it was a typing error or not.

Linda