A BMD query

The young lad next door wished to trace his family tree. So he is using my
machine with Alex Waugh's 'Roots'. Put in himself, and parents, then
telephoned various cousins etc asking "who was married to which?" when was x
born, got back to all g-grandparents, these not yet checked. Now one of
these is Harry Fletcher born 1904. So I asked if this should be Henry but
just called Harry, as Prince Harry. Further call to grandfather, no his
father was just Harry.

Fenny...

My gg-gf was just called Harry.

So we should be able to check this with BMD, called up Harry F for that
year, June quarter is the most likely, there are 15 of them, one is area 1d
and looks the most likely, but the district is in italics, so I called up
the image. Now comes the query, the image is very clear, there is an error
on the transcription, the first digit of the page number is missing, this
could be a simple typing error, but the district is clearly Lewisham. The
list of 15 names is different. The first 8 are Harry the other 7 are Henry.
Does this mean that the transcribers are working from some other
information or is there something I'm missing?

Alec Lefevre

Ron...

Look at
Harry
Henry
Harold - my grandson is called Harry all the time - many would not know
he is Harold

Presumably that is FreeBMD well go look at the image - it would be type
set. Images are in FreeBMD

or perhaps try the ones at

David J Grimshaw...

Hi Alec,
If you are talking about the search able index's at FreeBMD, then when
the transcriptions are done they are meant to be transcribed as shown on
the index put out by the GRO that you find at 1837online, warts and all.

So if there is a difference and you can prove it then report your
findings for each case to FreeBMD and sight your source.