Please Help, Can't Read Birth Cert writing!!!!!

[julia.julibob]

I know, it is really terrible, isnt it!!!! Matthew (Amos) assumed the name Golby for his marriage, and his death was also registered as Matthew Golby. The whole blasted family there is a mess! I can find no trace of Maud and no trace of the father Matthew Golby on any census.

I assumed that the copy I was send was a copy of the original? How can you tell that it is not.

And yes, you are right, now I look again it does say "hawker", I re-looked as my nan's cert (1921) and it says under the same column, "licenced hawker"

Julia

[mangomania]

Hi

1901 RG13 623 f21 p2

Shed Brickyard (Stonebridge), Dorking (rural)

Matthew Gobey 21 Basket maker (worker)(at home) b. Surrey Capel
Maud                 20 Licensed hawker(various)                Hants, Bournemouth
Henry                  1                                                         Surrey, Charlwood

Cheers
Ian

[Rena]

Reading from the lefthand side :-

Thirty-seven  (initialled by:) EM/
290/
Twenty Third November 1904, Leith Hill, Abinger Rd./
Matthew 36/
boy/
37 Matthew Golby/
Maud Amos a Hawker/
--/
Maud Amos   Mother   Leith Hill   Abinger/
Twentieth December 1904/
Edward Moore   Registrar


Merry Xmas
Rena

[julia.julibob]

THANKYOU, THANKYOU, THANKYOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!  After a year of searching, someone has found them for me on the census!!!!! Why I never looked under alternate spellings to Golby I will never know!!!! I now have 3 generations of travellers to trawl through! 

I cannot thank you all enough!

A very euphoric Julia!

[Rena]

I'm surprised the RGO didn't send an explanatory note or copy of the registrar's amendment notes, numbers 36 and 37.  We don't know if any of the names crossed through were meant to be crossed out or meant to be 'stet'.   Usually if a child is given a middle 'surname' it means the child was named after somebody with that surname.  In this case somebody on the mother's 'Amos' side. On the other hand if the registrar should not have given the child a second given name his notes against reference number 36 would explain this.

Hope somebody understands Double Dutch?   

Rena