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Offline Jebber

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Re: Birth certificates re twins
« Reply #27 on: Sunday 29 April 07 19:37 BST (UK) »
Many birth went unrecorded in the early years of registration, the onus was on the registrar to get the information, registration only became compulsory in 1875, that is when the responsibility of registration switched to the parents.

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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Birth certificates re twins
« Reply #28 on: Sunday 29 April 07 22:59 BST (UK) »
Thank you Jebber.
Boyle, Co. Leitrim  Boyle, Co. Tyrone, Shaughnessy, Co. Limerick, and  Manchester, UK.  Pope, Cheshire. Chadwick, Speke, Lancs.  Frankish, Hunmanby, Yorks.  Brindley, Audley, Staffs and  Middlesex.