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Would you know if there are any other types of payment that the General Register Office takes rather than a credit card? I don't own one.
Do you have a Visa debit card, ie. one that takes money directly from a bank account since they do take those too?
Sadly the story sounds a bit like one an ex-work colleague told me about a few year's back when she said her ancestor was supposed to be the child of a gardener and the daughter of a big house (a bit like a la Lady Chatterly's lover) who had been placed with a labourer's family in the village. When I took a look at the baptisms for her the child was a middle one for a couple who had quite a few over a long period of time! How it got so twisted over time is anybody's guess but I think the ancestor had married someone of a higher social standing and this probably was her way to justify her lowly beginnings
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