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Thanks for all your suggestions and offers of help but as I said earlier I don’t want to post the name as it might upset a closer living relative.

Thanks anyway

Sue

Thanks for your reply. I have tried thinking “out of the box” but still no luck. We genealogists like a challenge..

Thanks everyone, I have her date of birth from 1939 and have her in 1911 and 1921.

BUT I cannot find her birth registration……. I am suspicious and don’t want to post her name so as not to cause any offence to living family. The other sibling born 8 years later is registered and baptised which I find odd.

So I was wondering whether she might at any time have needed her birth certificate like when she got married.

I realise that it was easy in the 1800s to just state that you were of full age for marriage without having to provide any proof. Also to change your name or marital status was easy once you were outside an area in which you were known was easy since no proof was needed.

I just wondered at what point a bride and groom were required to prove their ages and names. I have a early 1920s marriage, but cannot find the bride’s birth registration despite knowing all about her parents and grandparents and thought that she might have needed her birth certificate to get married.

Just had a further look at John Perry, he became the postmaster in Stratton which I imagine was quite a respected position within the community