Birth Certificate Shock

[ajf25]

We've all had instances of coming across inconsistencies in certificates that we've ordered.

What is really confronting is when you order your own and it comes back with your first name, spelt differently than you have used all your life.

Alison or should I say Allison     

[Winterbloom21]

These things happen!    One of my cousins has a most unusual spelling of her name on her birth certificate.  Apparently, it didn't occur to her mother, when sending her husband off to register the birth of her daughter and giving her this lovely Irish name, that he didn't know how to spell it!

Also, my own brother celebrated his birthday on the wrong day for the first twenty years or so of his life.    Only when he had to produce his birth cert as part of the procedure for joining the navy did we discover that my mother had misremembered the date!

[Jeuel]

Lol!

I had a friend who was a registrar.  One day a woman came in to register the birth of her 12th child.  When asked the child's name she said "Elizabeth". 

My friend said "Is that with an s or a z?"

The woman looked bewildered for a moment and then said "no, with an E"!

[ajf25]

Ha Ha,

I imagine 12 kids would send your mind to mush.

Alison 

[7igerby7he7ail]

My own mum, for the the 54 years that I knew her was 'Marion'. It was only when she had passed on [and before I started my FH ] did I find out that she was Kathleen Marion Emma

[eadaoin]

ours was a "Marriage Certificate Shock"!

We needed  a Civil Certificate for inheritance purposes several years ago (married 25 years at the time). We probably had used our Church Cert before that (issued on marriage day with correct date).

OH went into GRO, and applied - no marriage registered! Eventually, marriage was found on 1st of month, rather than 18th.
In order to change this, it seems we'd have to go to court, etc.

So now we just use the incorrect date for official purposes.

eadaoin

[Winterbloom21]

You just reminded me of another one 7igerby7he7ail.      I went to my Auntie Molly's funeral many years ago.    Throughout the cemeremony the priest kept referring to this woman called 'Mary'.    The first few times he did it I was very taken aback and seriously wondered what was going on and whether this might be one of those bizarre scenarios where I had turned up at the wrong funeral.    Then the penny dropped.    Of course, Molly is a pet name for 'Mary'.     What a terrible giveaway that he didn't actually know her personally from Adam, just from the paperwork!

[weste]

At an aunts funeral who had been married twice, her name was given as the surname as the first husband! Apparently there were a few raised eyebrows. The kids father was the  first husband . I suspect a few people nearly choked on that one.

[dragongirl]

Hi
 My Mum died a few years ago 10days after her 91st birthday, as she only had a shortened form of her birth cert
I`d sent for a full one which  arrived after she`d died,
Always known as Amy Elizabeth cert came back Amy Elizabeth Flossie !!! My grandfather who registered the birth
couldn`t read nor write neither could my grandmother so wonder where "Flossie" came from. My sister wouldn`t believe until I sent her a copy- just wish Mum had lived a bit longer and could have told us if she`d known of her extra name!!