Hi
I am so sorry, I made a stupid typo.
I meant that although both a Thomas and Theresa Santry are both registered in the June quarter of
1940, they are not on the same or adjoining pages. If you look at
www.freebmd.org.uk, you will see that the page reference for Thomas is 1570, while the page reference for Theresa is 1592. It would be usual for twins to be indexed on either the same page or an adjoining page, as they would normally be registered at the same time. Of course there might be some unusual circumstance we don't know about that caused the registration to occur at different times.
Given that a Thomas Santry, or Berkeley or Richardson was born in 1934, and there seem to be potentially multiple index entries in that year, I wondered if it was a possibility that in order to remove the taint of illegitimacy from Thomas, his parents applied to legitimise him and re-register him under the Legitimacy Act 1926.
The Wikipedia entry explains:
"The Act allowed children to be legitimised by the subsequent marriage of their parents, provided that neither parent had been married to a third party at the time of the birth. In those circumstances, the legitimised birth was re-entered in the birth indexes for that year (sometimes many years after the original birth). The original entry would be annotated to refer to the new entry."
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_Act_1926It is just a theory, and may not be correct.
If you are going to order certificates from overseas, the cheapest and easiest option is to do so directly from the General Register Office, using the references from
www.freebmd.org.uk :
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/The commercial options are more expensive. You can also order from local register offices, but in most cases you would need a UK bank account.