Thread: advice: amendments to birth certificate

Hi There Lisa, You dont say where the birth took place but if it was in the UK I would contact the GRO (General Records Office) and ask their advice on the matter.


Marion

This hand written note it seems a bit strange - who signed it? I am wondering if the Mother married and the groom adopted the person - and applied for a change of name

the person is living, even though now under a different name. so not happy to post the details on here, I will replace names with an alias.

the written amendment is on the 'official copy' that is held at the GRO, when writing to them they advised they could not elaborate on the comments.

firstly the certificate is listed with same ref number, same first name and 2 seperate surnames (e.g. smith, Fred and Jones, Fred) when you search at the gro or online (freebmd & findmy past etc).

then i applied for the two certificates smith and jones, the reply said one was unavailable and the one they did send had this written note on the side. certificate said father of fred jones was fred jones snr, then note on the side said 'fred jones not father - father listed as fred smith'.

electorial records from the 1930s in that year say fred jones was in household with the mother mary wales (and she would have been 6 months pregnant). I am pretty sure that fred jones is te father and mary the moter, but i wondered if there may be some documentation somewhere asking for this birth certificate to be officially changed or whether the couyrt had to do it, or if anyone could write to the GRO.

i applied seperately for the other one and was sent the same one as the first one with same notes in margin. no covering note !

just wondered how an official document was changed like that.
am thinking i may have to go to the local register office of that district and ask ! lol


this child was then adopted, so no father took them on which is very sad, so dont think it was changed by the father? not sure about the mother? it may have even been the adoption people i guess !

I had one of those amendments written in the margin of the certificate. My great grandmother had 3 children after her husband had been killed in WW1 and had continued to name them in the dead husbands name. She had to make a Statutory Declaration...ie his details had to be omitted from the birth certificate...so I did get in touch with the local registrar but they were unaware of anymore documentation on the matter. It had been suggested that it came to light because she would have been receiving an army pension