Unless you ring the GRO and specifically ask for the 1922 cert, you will always get the 1927 version
Dawn
This has not been my experience.
If you applied on line using one of the 1922 references then that is what you will have got - was the date of registration given as 1922?
You now need the 1927 certificate, using the 1927 reference. You can get this by applying online as per normal.
I'm sorry to add to your comments SelDen but the GRO are under instructions not to issue invalid or superseded birth certs unless specifically asked for and with good reason.
In this case the original 1922 entry has been superseded by the 1927 one as evidenced by the annotation on the copy Richard has received and that he posted earlier.
There is one birth entry in 1922 for Sheila Crisell mmn Crisell, please look at the image not just the transcription. The inference if illegitimacy is made because the birth surname and mothers maiden surname are the same (not so when the fathers surname and mothers maiden surname before marriage are the same)
If you then look at the image for the Gibson entry for 1922 there is no entry for Sheila in the forename list but an insertion point where her name should be. Her entry is at the bottom of the page. This would have been added to the index when it was compiled in 1927 after the re-registration citing the Legitimacy Act of 1926.
Richard, have another look at the dates on the certificate you have received, if you have the 1927 copy, the 1927 should be written in the registration district box at the top of the cert, 1922 should be written in the birth box in column one and the date of re-registration 1927 written in column eight.
