Re: Birth Re-registration

As far as I am aware there are only two reasons for re-registration. One, as
you say is that the parents have now married and the second is to add the
name of the father to the birth certificate.

John E Wynn...

I have an example of a re-registration in order to remove the name of
the father (the husband) from the birth certificate. The original
registration was dated 24 May 1944 and the re-registration is dated 19

Lesley Robertson...

I suppose, in these days of DNA checking, we'll have to add a 3rd one -
removal of father from certificate.....
Lesley Robertson

Aug 1946.

The original entry is in the Jun qtr 1944 and the re-registration in
Sep qtr 1946.

John Wynn

I am just wondering at the level of beaurocracy involved with all this.
These are public documents after all and if they are to issue the certificates
anyway I wonder at the point of it all.

Out of interest, in the example you gave. Was the re-regsitered birth
included in the GRO Birth indexes in the same year and quarter as the original but
just under the new name?

Nick...

In 50 years time will it be apparent that this was done at a later stage, or
is this a matter of "rewriting" the records so the fact that the father was
added at a later stage after a later marriage will be obscured?

Geoff Pearson...

My sister was re-registered in 1953 so her name could be changed from
Valerie Ann to Janet Claire. I still don't understand how that could be
done.

Peter Goodey...

Sometimes there's a manuscript note on the page referring you to another
entry on another page. I'm not too clear about the circumstances though;
this might be a red herring.

Charani...

When one of my cousins was re-registered the original entry had the
reference crossed out and "See xx" written beside it (xx being the
quarter and year of the re-registered birth) . On the revised
certificate it had under the mother's name "now the wife of . . . ."