Occasional copy

[iolaus]

Looked up a birth on the gro index and was met with this

MORGAN, JOHN       (mothers maiden name) PROSSER     
GRO Reference: 1893  M Quarter in PONTYPRIDD  Volume 11A  Page 494  Occasional Copy: B

Any ideas what that means (the page on freeBMD is listed as 494b but I've never noticed a page have a letter after before

[dawnsh]

suggestions here

https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/12267/what-does-occasional-copy-refer-to-in-the-new-gro-index

but I understood that sometimes entries were sent to the GRO for compilation at the time they should have been and were late and/or missed off so the page number was changed later. So by adding the letter to a page number, the entry is still in the correct place

[AntonyMMM]

It would normally indicate a correction submitted after the original registration (but not a re-registration).

You would need a copy of the certificate to see what it was.

[dawnsh]

Anthony

would you know the difference between a "/s" entry and a "b" entry?