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 >