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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Kerrill on Saturday 25 July 20 14:56 BST (UK)
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Hi all,
did you need a birth certificate to join the forces (Connaught Rangers) back in 1915 and would you need a birth certificate if you got married in Galway Ireland in 1921. the reason I am asking is my great uncle whom I have a marriage cert and proof of him joining the army (word of mouth). He does not seem to have one as I have contacted BDM ie and paid up front for a cert but they came up with the wrong one saying they could not find him with the information I gave them, I have also searched Ancestry and Find my past to no avail, sooo I am thinking maybe he did not have one.
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Given how many fibbed about their age to join the army I would think not, also my grand uncle clearly didn't use his when he signed up, it wasn't correct until he was retiring from work in the 1940s. He wasn't a female called Jane as the birth cert claimed.
Baptism may possibly have been needed for marriage not birth certs.
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Thanks Sinann,
don't think I will have much luck with a babtism as I am thinking he was a natural child as they used to say.
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It was common for an unmarried mother to have her child/ren baptized. The priest might have used some form of words in the register to indicate this was the case.
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Thanks John,
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You might not register a birth but if they were RC they wouldn't dare not baptise.