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I've been searching for a marriage certificate for a male relative and am fairly certain I've found him in June 1850.  The only problem is that although I have the district and volume the page number is given as 11*, meaning whoever transcribed it couldn't read the last digit.  I tried viewing the o...

Thanks all. In this case I think the child, a girl, was given the father's surname but, as mentioned, can't really be sure.

What I meant to add was, all speculation aside, I'm still interested to try and find out how the child got listed twice in the register, once for each surname, and whether anyone else has seen or heard of this before? Thanks

1938. The theory is that either he was the father and it took 2 months for him to acknowledge that and register the birth, or that he wasn't the father (she was a servant in a big house, victorian type melodrama and all that) and that he was persuaded (paid?) to say he was and give the child legitim...

Does anyone have any experience of a birth being listed twice in the BMD registers or of both father and mother being in the 'informant' box on a birth certificate? I've been researching someone born out of wedlock in the May of a particular year, the birth registered in the July of the same year an...

Downloaded, installed and working in about 30 seconds flat, fantastic.
Wheel mouse works fine for me.
Haven't checked all the amendments that's going to take ages but for the moment I'm happy that it just opens up the right size now.
Thanks Simon, Jane, and anyone else involved.[grin]