Birth cert

[Kerrill]

Hi all,
          did you need a birth certificate to join the forces (Connaught Rangers) back in 1915 and would you need a birth certificate if you got married in Galway Ireland in 1921. the reason I am asking is my great uncle whom I have a marriage cert and proof of him joining the army  (word of mouth).  He does not seem to have one as I have contacted BDM ie  and paid up front for a cert but they came up with the wrong one saying they could not find him with the information I gave them, I have also searched Ancestry and Find my past to no avail, sooo I am thinking maybe he did not have one.

[Sinann]

Given how many fibbed about their age to join the army I would think not, also my grand uncle clearly didn't use his when he signed up, it wasn't correct until he was retiring from work in the 1940s. He wasn't a female called Jane as the birth cert claimed.
Baptism may possibly have been needed for marriage not birth certs.

[Kerrill]

Thanks Sinann,
                         don't think I will have much luck with a babtism  as I am  thinking he was a natural child as they used to say.

[JohninSussex]

It was common for an unmarried mother to have her child/ren baptized.  The priest might have used some form of words in the register to indicate this was the case.

[Kerrill]

Thanks John,
                     

[Sinann]

You might not register a birth but if they were RC they wouldn't dare not baptise.