Birth registration D/65

[Keitht]

Whilst looking up a birth registration on FreeBMD I came across two registrations for the sam person, one quoting the usual reference of folio and page, the other quoting the folio followed by the words "SEE D/65". Please can anyone tell me what such a reference means?

[Comberton]

Try searching for another registration in the same name or different surname in Dec quarter of year ending 65. It suggests an amendment made in 65. Do you want to give the name?

[AntonyMMM]

Could be a late registration, without seeing details it is impossible to know, but by far the most likely explanation will be a re-registration, not a correction or amendment to the original entry.

The usual reason would be adding an unmarried father who wasn't named on the original entry, or under the Legitimacy Act after the later marriage of the parents (although there can be other reasons).

[Keitht]

Thankyou both, you are correct in all respects. Since my original post the person conerned has found a letter from the GRO explaining why a modified birth cert was isued. It relates to the mother having omitted the father's name from the original because the parents were unmarried. Apparently once they were married the father then had to make a declaration to the effect that he was the father, after which an amended certificate was issued.

Thanks again for your help.

[AntonyMMM]

It isn't an amended certificate - the birth is registered again, completely separately from the first one.

If a certificate from the original (first/unmarried) entry was the one ordered, then that is what should have been supplied - however, GRO do have a habit of trying to be helpful and automatically sending a certificate from a later re-registration.

[Treetotal]

I have the same scenario in one of my lines, Children appearing with Mother's First married surname then with her second married name a few years later. I had to let a tree owner know that she had attributed Children to my Aunt's first Husband 
They are registered twice, a few years apart.
Carol

[Keitht]

All of this came about when the lady concerned started to go through documents left with the family solicitor after her mother's death. For years she had been in possession of the second cert, showing her father's name and was quite shocked to find the earlier one, about which she had known nothing,  among her mother's papers. Her question to me was, can you have two birth certs and if so, how?

My initial reaction was to go to FreeBMD, where I found both registrations a quarter apart. When I posted my initial query I hadn't realised the significance of the "see D/65" entry but it suddenly struck me as soon as the lady mentioned the GRO letter which she had also found among her late mother's papers.

Thank you all. You have not only helped someone to set her mind at ease, you have also added to my knowledge in a most interesting situation.