General Chat

Bob

Thanks for the message. I do have a National Insurance number so will look at that as for National registration Numer..not sure. I will look at the cert I have for birth and see if it tells me anything else...it feels strange very starnge


Bridget

I want to say thanks to everyone who has responded. My mother did not know the person she has named as Father in June 1945, she was stll living with her husband who is still alive in his 90s and still claims that he is my father!!! LOL
Many people are looking for their father and I had two, both of whom wanted to be my father!!!

I will have to send for both I think or maybe someone at the Records office would know why...can't check the hospital reocrds as it has closed.


Bridget

Hullo Bridget,
I dont know if this may help, or whether they still do it.

I have a national insurance number, and national registration number,
One I am sure, applies to the year that that I was born, 1937, ( four letters followed by " 37.3"
(does anyone know if my thinking is correct)

the other is two letters followed by six figures, followed by a " B"

do you have either/ both of those?
Bob

Have you looked at the original images, as there may be a handwritten note in the margin or at the bottom?

Sounds like your birth was reregistered with a correction. This is quite common and can be done years after the event.

Rose

Hi Bridget

I think that the earlier of the two dates would be correct, as your mum couldn't have registered you a year before you were born.

The other option is that there may have been another little girl born a year before you, also called Bridget, who could have died, and you were named after her. It may be worth checking for a death sometime in the intervening year. Years ago it was common practice to give a child the same name as a deceased sibling.

Dianne xx

I would have thought that the earlier one would be correct.

I looked up someone at work last week, as they have a unique name, and her birth is in the index for Sep. qtr. 1966 and again for March qtr. 1967.

She was born July 1966.

My birth, or so I bleieve is in june 1946 and that is what my cert says. However when I recentky looked it up online there was a another set of numbers next to it...so i looked that up as well. There I am again, same mother, same dates, same name but this time wiith the reference number of the previous record attached. so was I born in1945 or 1946.???????

if 1945 can I claim another years OAP?? HA HA


Bridget


Mother married at the time but put another name of birth cert this is contested by her then husband who is alive and kicking and in his mid 90s....