Hello Elizabeth & Ken - thank you the case is getting muddier ... the records & dates I have are as follows / Birth Certificate - dob 25 November 1843 / FreeBMD - IV Q 1843 / Application for certificate - dob 15 October 1842 / and now this ...baptisms St. John & St. Mary Cardiff date of baptism - 19 November 1843 (this is a photocopy of the register page obtained from LDS many years ago). This last one is really strange - it shows his baptism 6 days before he was born as per the birth certificate OR a year after his birth according to the application. I have decided that it might be a good idea to search for his marine records pre-certificate - perhaps there was some sort of age restriction ?? thank you for reading ... Helen "Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines ~ it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits" Robin Sloan Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:04:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [GLA] a discrepancy - opinions on what may be done? From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Some years ago, I had gotten so unconcerned about age that I made myself 3 years older. When there wasn't so much need for the Government to "Know" All I think many people missed a bit of age, add to the need to avoid fines as has been mentioned, I think you could account for a lot of differences <G> Eliz Not Today and Not without a Fight (Anon) For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. (Dag Hammarskjold) On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Helen D'All <[email protected]> wrote: Hello all - I have a birth certificate for Thomas Stockwood, born 25 November 1843 to William Stockwood & Louisa Fullinlove. The birth was registered according to the certificate on 3 December 1843 - there is a corresponding entry in FreeBMD. I have just noticed that the same Thomas, in filling out his"Application to be examined for an Engineer's Certificate of Competency" in 1865, records his birth date as 15 October 1842 & have been unable to find a corresponding BMD entry. That they are one and the same person, ie the son of William, is validated by many, many documents covering his life as a ship's engineer, his subsequent death & the placement of one of his children in the Muller Home. At first I imagined there may have been some sort of reason, such as an age limit for a certificate that might have caused him to fudge the date, but the time difference is so small. Does anyone have an opinion on perhaps the why - whether I should try to solve this (and how?) thank you ... Helen "Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines ~ it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits" Robin Sloan -- To send to the list send to [email protected] GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html - This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ - A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ - The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message