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Quote from: jimnix on Thursday 05 August 21 12:32 BST (UK)

His birth was registered on 15 November 1880 - so would this have been considered a late registration if he had been born 21 September?

My understanding is that the birth had to be registered within 42 days. 1st October to 15th November is just over that (about 46 days) so it wouldn’t appear to have avoided the penalty.

https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/9615/penalty-for-late-registration-of-birth-in-england#:~:text=The%20father%2C%20mother%2C%20neighbor%2C%20or%20other%20person%20present,six%20months%20the%20birth%20could%20not%20be%20registered.

Thanks, Elwyn. I’m going to take the baptism entry’s word for it for the time being. It seems to me that it was definitely the 21st day of the month but definitely can’t have been December!

An ancestor of mine fathered a son as a young man with a single woman. He was named as the father in a bastardy bond which gives the child’s date of birth as 21 December 1880. The child’s baptism record gives the birthdate as 21 September and the birth certificate states that he was born 1 October! Perhaps not so coincidentally, the date given in the bastardy bond was the birthdate of the father, not the son. So which source do I believe?

My ancestor Mary Rowley married Thomas Tebbett by license on 5 April 1797 at Netherseal. Thomas' father was John Tebbett, a butcher. To complicate things further, Thomas also had a brother named John Tebbett who followed his father in this trade. I have no details about Mary's life before her marriage, only that was born about 1775 (according to her 1826 burial at Netherseal).

There was another Rowley marriage at Netherseal a year after Mary and Thomas were married. Ann Rowley (born about 1763) married Nathan Granger by license on 24 April 1798. I have a copy of the license and a John Tebbett, a butcher, signed his name. This was either my Mary's father-in-law or brother-in-law. Ann Rowley died in 1846 in Stapenhill.

Two women, born within about ten years of each other, married in the same village, with one woman having the father/brother-in-law of the other sign the marriage license. My guess is they were either sisters or cousins but I have absolutely no way of confirming this as I haven't the faintest clue where my Mary was born. The marriages of Mary and Ann Rowley are the only Rowley entries in the parish registers of Netherseal so I would guess they weren't local girls 

Ann Collins (née Hill) was born 1830 in Wednesbury. She married Samuel Collins 19 September 1853 in Birmingham. They had two daughters - Mary (1856-1856) and Eliza Ann (1858). I have Ann and Samuel in 1861 living in Wednesbury, Samuel was a coach bolt maker. Ann was widowed in May 1861 and her daughter Eliza was living with James and Mary Stringer in 1871. I can’t find Ann anywhere 

I’ve searched for a second marriage and I’ve searched for a death and seem to have hit a brick wall! Perhaps fresh eyes can find her