Short version:
Could anyone tell me if a photocopy birth cert from Ireland GRO,(sometime in the 1880s) will be from the original register of births or is it a copy of a copy kind of thing?
If the GRO hold a copy of copy, can anyone tell me if local registrars hold the original registers and, if so, do they also do a photocopy version?
Longer version if anyone can advise:
I have been researching a lady who was born in Tipperary sometime in the 1880s. Family moved to England c1900. English 1901 census, has her age as being born c1884, English 1911 census is consistent with that.
She married in 1918, gave her age as 29, which means she was born c1889. I know that sometimes we ladies shave a few years off our ages and her hubby was born 1891 so was younger than her so that may be relevant.
rootsireland.ie shows me a civil registration record transcription for a child of the right name, right parents, right place - born 21st Jan 1883
BUT in 1917, not long before she married she must have applied for and got a birth cert from Ireland. Its dated 17 Sep 1917 and says its a certified copy of entry 301 in the register book of births, District of Kilcooley, in the Union of Urlingford and its word for word the same as the 1883 transcript on rootsireland EXCEPT for the birth year which says 1889.
I get the feeling that its likely to be an error by whoever did the copy certificate in 1917 when she applied, even registrars make transcription errors :-) and when it arrived she must have thought Great! six years younger at a stroke, I'll take that :-)
So, I have this anomaly and I am not sure whether the GRO would be my best bet or if I should be asking a local registrar for a photocopy of an entry (if, indeed, they do such things) and if its the local registrar how would I go about that?
Sorry if that was longwinded and hard to follow but its frying my brain!
Boo
