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Two Birth Registrations?
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Beverley | Report | 16 Aug 2010 20:15 |
Can someone tell me how someone can have two birth names and registrations with one as the same name as their mother's maiden name and the other with the mother's maiden name being different? It is quite an unusual spelling and quite recent so probably living people involved here. |
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Mary | Report | 16 Aug 2010 20:25 |
It could be that his mam wasn't married when he was born.So he had his mums name then the man she married's name. |
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CherryBlossom | Report | 16 Aug 2010 20:34 |
My son, born in 1993, is registered twice as I wasn't married to the father at the time. |
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Beverley | Report | 16 Aug 2010 20:39 |
Thanks for these suggestions. I didn't realise you could register a child twice. Would this still mean that the child's marriage would be registered twice though? |
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CherryBlossom | Report | 16 Aug 2010 20:50 |
I didn't actually register my son twice - it was done automatically!! Didn't know about it until two years ago. |
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mgnv | Report | 16 Aug 2010 21:32 |
Beverley - one usually finds that there are not two registrations, but just one with two names mentioned, and so two index entries in the two names, both pointing to the same registration. |
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Madmeg | Report | 16 Aug 2010 21:59 |
But Beverley is saying that the mother's maiden name is different - your maiden name doesn't change. Maybe she was born under one name and "adopted" another if her mother re-married? |
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mgnv | Report | 16 Aug 2010 23:01 |
Madmeg - correct. Your maiden surname is the name under which you were first married. It often is your birth name too. If Susan first married Tom Green, say, as Smith and Jones, FreeBMD and Ancestry would have entries for: |
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Madmeg | Report | 16 Aug 2010 23:07 |
We don't know what dates we are looking at. Mgnv, double names didn't start to be quoted until the mid 1900s I don't think. |
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mgnv | Report | 16 Aug 2010 23:28 |
Madmeg - I'ld never really thought abt it. I've seen plenty of double names on 19th century marriages, but now you mention it, these were probably from the local RO indices, rather than the GRO's, since I mostly only look at Lancs and the NE, both of which have large chunks of their local indices online. |
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Beverley | Report | 17 Aug 2010 05:45 |
Sorry I'm so long coming back to you all. |
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Kense | Report | 17 Aug 2010 08:29 |
On a related note, when a birth is registered there is a period of a few months when the given name can be changed. Does that mean there are two entries in the birth index for that person, or is the first index amended? |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 17 Aug 2010 08:38 |
As stated, there are not two registrations, only one. However, multiple index entries are more common that you might think. I have come across quite a few recently, and there was an identical thread on the subject a week or so ago. |