Hi Everyone, I'd appreciate listers input on a puzzle I have please! I have the birth certificate of Hannah HUBBARD. She was born on 17th Jan 1864 at Ryhope. I knew she had died young, from family information, but didn't know when she died. Then I found her death entry, and the death certificate arrived this morning! It says she died on 27th June 1866, aged 10 months old. At Hetton-le-Hole. Now I know that I have the right family, as the correct Father is recorded as being the informant. And I know that they had moved to Hetton-le-Hole sometime! The mystery is, if Hannah was born in 1864 and died in 1866, she should have been 2 years and 5 months old at the time of the death, and not 10 months old! I have looked on Free bmd site, and there are no more Hannah HUBBARD's listed, born or died in the area where mine was, in that time scale! I haven't looked in the GRO indexes at the library though! My thoughts are that it is the same Hannah in the birth and death certificates I have got, and for some reason, the age at death has been put down wrongly!! But it beats me how a Father can put down a wrong age of his own daughter, by that much!! Any thoughts about it appreciated!! Anyone else come across anything like this? Jan Boyes

Hi Jan, I can help you here. I'm going to my local Family History Centre tomorrow night and would be happy to look in the GRO birth and death registration indexes for the 1864 - 1866 period. Regards, Paul At 06:29 PM 2/25/04 +0000, markandjanboyes wrote: >Hi Everyone, >I'd appreciate listers input on a puzzle I have please! > >I have the birth certificate of Hannah HUBBARD. >She was born on 17th Jan 1864 at Ryhope. >I knew she had died young, from family information, but didn't know when she >died. >Then I found her death entry, and the death certificate arrived this >morning! > >It says she died on 27th June 1866, aged 10 months old. At Hetton-le-Hole. > >Now I know that I have the right family, as the correct Father is recorded >as being the informant. And I know that they had moved to Hetton-le-Hole >sometime! > >The mystery is, if Hannah was born in 1864 and died in 1866, she should have >been >2 years and 5 months old at the time of the death, and not 10 months old! > >I have looked on Free bmd site, and there are no more Hannah HUBBARD's >listed, born or died in the area where mine was, in that time scale! >I haven't looked in the GRO indexes at the library though! > >My thoughts are that it is the same Hannah in the birth and death >certificates I have got, and for some reason, the age at death has been put >down wrongly!! >But it beats me how a Father can put down a wrong age of his own daughter, >by that much!! > >Any thoughts about it appreciated!! Anyone else come across anything like >this? > >Jan Boyes > > > > >==== ENG-DURHAM Mailing List ==== >Browse the ENG-DURHAM archives >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/eng-durham Paul Roberts Chryxus Corporation Suite 201, 92 Lakeshore Road East, Mississauga Ontario L5G 4S2 Phone: (905) 891-2987 Fax: (647) 439-1357 Chryxus Corporation http://www.chryxus.com/ Provider of the B.I.O.Frame/RS enterprise architecture repository.