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Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,113 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	25 Nov 2010 20:20
	Depending on how common the name is, you could have the correct entry. I have a death certificate for someone who was supposedly 68 when he died in 1915. He had married in 1908 and stated he was 58. I have a baptism record for 1840, so his 'adjustment' of age at marriage led to his stepson giving the wrong age at death. Gwyn
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 1,730 Send Message	Elisabeth	Report	25 Nov 2010 19:59
	It will depend on what the informant says, when they register the death. It may be what they believe to be true, or just a guess. You don't need to produce a birth certificate when you register a death.
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 2 Send Message	Steven	Report	25 Nov 2010 19:46
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 2 Send Message	looking for a death record, and have found one that i think might be the person the age it staes though is 7 years out of where I would expect it to be I.e. John Askew was born in 1860, the record im looking at says he died in 1930 aged 77, but that would put his birth at 1853. Other people have put these details down as correct but im not so sure it is with it being 7 years (1 or 2 I could cope with) Is it common to get details so inaccurate?