Hello, {Philippa Cooper states that she has a birth certificate for an ancestor dated 1829? Please Philippa can you tell us what you call a birth certificate in this case. If you are referring to an English or Welsh birth it could not be what is understood as a birth certificate as registration that provides b.m.d. certificates did not start until 1st. July 1837. If there are other institutions, countries, churches etc., that issued such certificates previous to 1837 it would be of interest to us all. Regards, Dennis Bramble.