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Topic: "Clerical Error" sex-change. (Read 292 times)
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indiapaleale
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I had to laugh at your story!
It reminded me of the birth certificate mix-up in my own family.
My Dad had two brothers...both named Arnold Eric!
It seems that Grandad went to register the new baby boy and on his way he stopped by the local for a few sherberts! When he got to the Register Office he was well puddled and forgot what he was supposed to name the baby. All he could think of was the name of the other toddler at home....hence Arnold Eric!
It's a good thing that the second Arnold Eric wasn't a girl!
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janan
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Hi
There are apparently conditions where the gender of a child is ambiguous at birth - maybe poor old Ernest/Alice suffered from such a condition 
Jan 
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ALL CENSUS DATA INCLUDED IN POSTINGS IS CROWN COPYRIGHT, FROM www.nationalarchives.gov.ukbedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell buckinghamshire- pain cambridgeshire- bird, carver hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey derbyshire- allsop, noon devon - griffin, love, rapsey dorset- rendall, gale somerset- rendall, churchill surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge |
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Lloydy
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I think Hermaphrodite is the medical word.......
Jan
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scrattletrap
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It's not surprising to have a child of that age in a dress, I have a very similar picture of my uncle William at about the same age in a dress, and he went on to sire 11 children.
Back to the wrong registry of births because of "too much drink" my father has two birth certs, and for two different days no less, my grandfather registered him for one day and my great grandmother for another, to this day he doesn't know which is right.
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janan
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What a lovely picture 
Re dresses for young boys I understand it was very common until they reached about 5.
Jan (the other one)
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ALL CENSUS DATA INCLUDED IN POSTINGS IS CROWN COPYRIGHT, FROM www.nationalarchives.gov.ukbedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell buckinghamshire- pain cambridgeshire- bird, carver hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey derbyshire- allsop, noon devon - griffin, love, rapsey dorset- rendall, gale somerset- rendall, churchill surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge |
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scrattletrap
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Here's my uncle in his
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1000xlch
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Hi all
Boys were commonly photographed in dresses in the late 1800's and probably up to age 5.
My birth cert problem was my dad had registered my mothers wrong maiden name which only came to light when I was 16 and he had to go and take an oath before a JP at there house and swear that he was the father of me!
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DUNN - Cambuslang, LKS FORSYTH - Shotts, LKS FRAME - Hamilton, LKS HODGSON - Hamsterley, DUR HUMPHREY - Easingwold, NRY HUNT - Frimley, Surrey MCKECHNIE - Argyll - Shotts NETHERCLIFF(T)/ DRAYCOTT Sandhurst, BKS PEPPERCORN - Lolworth, Cambs PRATT - Thirsk, NYK REDSHAW - Hamsterley, DUR REYNOLDS - Fritton,Stratton,NFK ROWLEY - STS to DUR TALLACK - St Agnes Padstow,CON WALMSLEY - NRY,Brum WILSON - Hamsterley, Co Durham Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Keith Sherwood
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For ages I couldn't work out why I was unable to find my great-aunt Enid in the 1901 Census on line. I always put in the gender option - but it was only when I accidentally put her in as "male" that I found her. Not sure whether it was what she was wearing, or that the forename Enid was not a common girl's name then - probably just another clerical error...
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("Girl" has been crossed out, and replaced by "boy" in Column 3). Did the Registrar really make a mistake, - or was it my Grandfather?
