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Title: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: EeyoreBlue on Wednesday 01 August 18 11:49 BST (UK)
Hi all

I'm after some help deciphering the words at the end of the page (bottom right).  I've included bits of the page for reference, but hopefully not all of anything, so wont have infringed copyright.

The bottom line reads:

Sett Maker    Mary Ann Burns, Mother, (placename unsure)   Eleventh April 1908   Wm R Davy

but at the end, there is some further writing, which I am unable to make into anything.  Anyone any suggestions?

Thanks

EeyoreBlue
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: rosie99 on Wednesday 01 August 18 11:51 BST (UK)
+ Error in copy only (also initials of the person who wrote it)

I would imagine it relates to something else on the page where there is an +
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: Ruskie on Wednesday 01 August 18 11:52 BST (UK)
"Error in copy only" - then initials.

Snap Rosie.  :)

Whereabouts in the world is the entry from? (so we can consider the place name)

Added: Is it Ireland?
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 01 August 18 11:53 BST (UK)
I should stop reading newspapers - I was about to say the same as Rosie  :)

Is there any writing in the left hand margin?

Gadget
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: Ruskie on Wednesday 01 August 18 11:55 BST (UK)
Tunbane?
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: EeyoreBlue on Wednesday 01 August 18 12:12 BST (UK)
Hi All

Yes, it's Ireland, Co Donegal.  Millford, Fannet are the districts/areas concerned.

There is an error on the date entry, so perhaps the error refers to that?

EeyoreBlue
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: rosie99 on Wednesday 01 August 18 12:14 BST (UK)
As it has a + against it I would imagine that it is the error refereed to
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: EeyoreBlue on Wednesday 01 August 18 13:07 BST (UK)
Could the placename be Tonbane?  I've searched for Quarries in Co Donegal, and that's one that came up.  But it seems a long way north of Millford/Fannet!
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: Ruskie on Wednesday 01 August 18 13:17 BST (UK)
Second letter looks like a u in both examples. The letter 'o' looks to be formed differently.

It could be a misspelling - Tunbane = Tonbane.
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: Sinann on Wednesday 01 August 18 18:14 BST (UK)
Good site for Reg districts
This is Milford
https://www.swilson.info/regdistmap.php?gregdistid=114#
Click on each Civil Parish to see names of towns and townlands
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: hallmark on Wednesday 01 August 18 18:36 BST (UK)
WHY CAN;T YOU JUST POST A DIRECT LINK TO THE PAGE SO PEOPLE CAN SEE DISTRICT, OFFICE ETC??
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: EeyoreBlue on Wednesday 01 August 18 20:32 BST (UK)
Sorry, didn't think to do that, was worried about copyright, but I guess a link is ok:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/a7014a0524194?b=https%3A%2F%2Fcivilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie%2Fchurchrecords%2Fcivil-perform-search.jsp%3Fnamefm%3DDorah%26namel%3DBurns%26location%3D%26yyfrom%3D%26yyto%3D%26submit%3DSearch%26sort%3D%26pageSize%3D100%26century%3D%26decade%3D%26exact%3D%26ddBfrom%3D1%26ddMfrom%3D%26ddDfrom%3D%26ddPfrom%3D%26mmBfrom%3D1%26mmMfrom%3D%26mmDfrom%3D%26mmPfrom%3D%26yyBfrom%3D1904%26yyMfrom%3D%26yyDfrom%3D%26yyPfrom%3D%26ddBto%3D31%26ddMto%3D%26ddDto%3D%26ddPto%3D%26mmBto%3D12%26mmMto%3D%26mmDto%3D%26mmPto%3D%26yyBto%3D1910%26yyMto%3D%26yyDto%3D%26yyPto%3D%26locationB%3D%26locationM%3D%26locationD%3D%26locationP%3D%26keywordb%3DTa*%26keywordm%3D%26keywordd%3D%26keywordp%3D%26event%3D%26district%3D
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: Sinann on Wednesday 01 August 18 20:55 BST (UK)
Image is a bit shorter
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1908/01655/1660298.pdf
Title: Re: Birth Certificate deciphering please
Post by: Rosinish on Wednesday 01 August 18 22:41 BST (UK)
Sorry, didn't think to do that, was worried about copyright, but I guess a link is ok:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/a7014a0524194?b=https%3A%2F%2Fcivilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie%2Fchurchrecords%2Fcivil-perform-search.jsp%3Fnamefm%3DDorah%26namel%3DBurns%26location%3D%26yyfrom%3D%26yyto%3D%26submit%3DSearch%26sort%3D%26pageSize%3D100%26century%3D%26decade%3D%26exact%3D%26ddBfrom%3D1%26ddMfrom%3D%26ddDfrom%3D%26ddPfrom%3D%26mmBfrom%3D1%26mmMfrom%3D%26mmDfrom%3D%26mmPfrom%3D%26yyBfrom%3D1904%26yyMfrom%3D%26yyDfrom%3D%26yyPfrom%3D%26ddBto%3D31%26ddMto%3D%26ddDto%3D%26ddPto%3D%26mmBto%3D12%26mmMto%3D%26mmDto%3D%26mmPto%3D%26yyBto%3D1910%26yyMto%3D%26yyDto%3D%26yyPto%3D%26locationB%3D%26locationM%3D%26locationD%3D%26locationP%3D%26keywordb%3DTa*%26keywordm%3D%26keywordd%3D%26keywordp%3D%26event%3D%26district%3D

There's an option at the bottom of this & every other page in the section coloured brown, 2nd column under Your Tools, 4th row, named ShrinkLink (make long links short) & by inserting your link or any other long link it then becomes shorter (very handy indeed)! i.e.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01mg9/

Annie