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Offline Jolene1987

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Birth Certificate - help please
« on: Thursday 24 July 14 12:27 BST (UK) »
Hi

could someone help me understand what is wrote in box 8 - next to father's name.  It looks like "his x mask" to me but that makes no sense.  Thanks  :)
Black, Dunlop, Pritchard, Todd, Kelso, Hamilton, McGarry (all Belfast based)

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Re: Birth Certificate - help please
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 24 July 14 12:34 BST (UK) »
It's

his
X
mark

meaning that the father "made his mark" by writing the X (instead of a signature - this was how people signed if they could not write their name)  and the registrar has confirmed by the writing on either side that it was his (the father's) mark.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Birth Certificate - help please
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 24 July 14 12:50 BST (UK) »
Brilliant! Thank you.  I would never have understood that. :)
Black, Dunlop, Pritchard, Todd, Kelso, Hamilton, McGarry (all Belfast based)
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