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London and Middlesex / Re: Acton Residential Club location?
« on: Monday 08 February 21 12:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hello ShaunJ and ReadyDale ... thanks for the info! Just found the property on google maps at the address you gave, and have also found an old planning application for this address showing its layout when it was a hostel - very interesting! Thanks again for your help, Nina

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London and Middlesex / Acton Residential Club location?
« on: Sunday 07 February 21 22:39 GMT (UK)  »
Hi!  Hoping someone can help as I seem to having no luck at all with my search ...

I am looking for the exact location/street address for a hostel for ex-offenders which was called the ‘Acton Residential Club’.  All I know is that it was on Acton High Street, West London.

One of my relatives (deceased since 1992) lived there after coming out of prison in the 1970s - I guess it was a bit like a halfway house.  I was just interested to locate it as he never spoke much about it.

Many thanks! Nina


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London and Middlesex / Re: I have TWO Birth Certificates ...
« on: Monday 18 January 21 17:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Guy - thank you for your info - both certs show the same name.  I will go with the 1976 reregistered version as that clearly supersedes the original one in which my parents were unmarried. I don't have the short version of my birth - I have noticed that the long versions have that warning printed on them - doesn't really make anyone's long version believable since anyone can buy any cert from the GRO!!!  Many thanks, Nina

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London and Middlesex / Re: I have TWO Birth Certificates ...
« on: Monday 18 January 21 17:25 GMT (UK)  »
Hello AntonyMMM - wow - thanks so much - I believe you are an ex-Registrar - you have explained everything so clearly - I feel completely happy now to go with the 1976 version!  And you are spot on - there is a line under the date of reregistration which says 'on the authority of the Registrar General'.  Thanks for your help, much appreciated!  Nina

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London and Middlesex / Re: I have TWO Birth Certificates ...
« on: Monday 18 January 21 16:54 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Gan Yam - both show all the same info but the reregistered one has a different address for my father.  There is no line about it being the 'reregistered' certificate.  A copy ordered of the original 1970 full cert would still show the birth registered in 1970 whereas the reregistered one shows the birth as registered in 1976 - basically looks like they did it 6 years too late!!!  I probably could pass this off as a 'copy'. I live abroad and need to get my birth cert verified locally as I am getting married.  I have a passport and of course a local driving licence, local residency card, local social security, local healthcare, local everything, but they also want my birth certificate verified too!!!  Crazy really since they know exactly who I am and have done for nearly 20 years - didn't need my birth cert originally for anything as the passport was the main document that was needed back then.  Nina

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London and Middlesex / Re: I have TWO Birth Certificates ...
« on: Monday 18 January 21 16:29 GMT (UK)  »
I was just thinking of contacting the GRO and asking them which one they would consider to be the 'valid' one for legal use ... should have done that years ago really!

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London and Middlesex / Re: I have TWO Birth Certificates ...
« on: Monday 18 January 21 16:25 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Rosie - yes that's exactly it ... 'Application to re-register a birth following marriage or civil partnership of natural parents' ... just leaves me with the quandary of which one to use!

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London and Middlesex / Re: I have TWO Birth Certificates ...
« on: Monday 18 January 21 16:16 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Annie & Lizzie - the only difference on the certs is the address of my father (he was named on both) - looking online it appears it was a legal requirement in those days for a child born to unwed parents to be reregistered if they subsequently got married - I think it removed the cloud of being illegitimate - not that it has ever bothered me but I guess it was more of a thing in those days for the parents!  It is odd though - I enquired years ago when all the records were kept at the Family Records Centre in north London and they scratched their heads there as they said it was normally done because the surname of the child had changed, but as my mother had already changed her surname by Deed Poll before I was born, I already had the correct surname! 

Re taking along both - I live abroad and have to get one verified locally as I am due to get married - just didn't want it to cause any hiccups!  Nina

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London and Middlesex / Re: I have TWO Birth Certificates ...
« on: Monday 18 January 21 14:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Lizzie & Rosinish - yes, they are definitely both GRO birth certificates!  My preference is to produce the first one issued in 1970 but it has an added line at the bottom 'Re-registered under Section 14 of the Births & Deaths Registration Act 1953 on *date* 1976' and I can see that causing issues - then if I produce just the second one dated 1976 that will lead to questions about the first certificate, so not sure what to do!!! 

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