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Re: Query on 1903 Birth Registration
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 05 April 16 19:01 BST (UK) »
No worries Looby glad to have helped.

I would be interested to know how the 1959 entry differs from the 1903 one when you have checked it out.

One thing though it probably won't tell you who gave the new information at least it didn't in my two.

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Dorrie
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Re: Query on 1903 Birth Registration
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 05 April 16 19:19 BST (UK) »
Once I get to see it I'll post on this thread what I discover Dorrie.
Thanks again.

Looby

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Re: Query on 1903 Birth Registration
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 05 April 16 20:12 BST (UK) »

There has been for some time a way of re-registering illegitimate births where the parents subsequently marry and, therefor, the birth is legitimised on the records. This is done through an application to the Sheriff Court but I'm not sure whether anyone even goes to the bother of applying nowadays!
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Re: Query on 1903 Birth Registration
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 05 April 16 20:19 BST (UK) »
Thank you Carolineasb,

Legitimising the birth due to the parents having married could well be the reason behind this re-registration.
Why it took 56 years , I'll probably never know??

Looby


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Re: Query on 1903 Birth Registration
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 27 April 16 12:44 BST (UK) »
Hi  :)

An update to my puzzle - I finally got to a Scotlands People Centre and looked at the 1959 birth registration.

It was in fact the child's father , who 56 years after her birth re-registered it and although he had been named on and signed the original ,  had his and the mother's marriage details added .The word "illegitmate" is now missing.
A member of the staff at the centre, tells me a new birth certificate would've been issued too without the word "illegitimate" .


Thanks to those who contributed to the post,

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« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 27 April 16 13:06 BST (UK) »
That's a great outcome Looby. A mystery now solved.

Would never have thought that it would be the father who re-registered her birth.

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Re: Query on 1903 Birth Registration
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 27 April 16 21:00 BST (UK) »
I would think that it has to be one or both of the parents who would apply to the Court for re-registration of a birth.
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Re: Query on 1903 Birth Registration
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 27 April 16 23:14 BST (UK) »
I would think that it has to be one or both of the parents who would apply to the Court for re-registration of a birth.

I do not know if parents need to apply to the Court to re-register a birth, there was certainly no mention on the record of a Court being involved. And if they do today, I don't know if that was a requirement in 1959 :-\
But you are right, I was told at the Scotlands People Centre that only a parent could re-register a birth and not the child themselves. In this case it was only the father as the mother was deceased.
You learn something new every day.
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Re: Query on 1903 Birth Registration
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 28 April 16 06:10 BST (UK) »
It is not unusual to have a re-registration. A great uncle and aunt of mine had a daughter born in 1916. They were not married and the birth certificate only has the mother's name because the father was in the army in France. They married when he was on leave in 1917. Just before the girl married, her father went back to the district where the birth was originally registered and re-registered it. The new certificate has both parents' names and the date of their marriage.