Dear Dennis Thank you for the reprimand - reminded me of my achool reports of some 65 years ago - "Philippa is sometimes loose with the facts". I should have said birth details rather than used the word certificate. Came from the family bible in his mother's handwriting. I am actually aware that registration didn't commence until 1835. Thank you for the reminder. Cheers Philippa ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:10:59 -0000 From: "dennis bramble" <d.bramble@mypostoffice.co.uk> Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] Frederick Friend To: <kent-eng@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <610B73A4B12F40EEA4C606F68C4CCAE8@emachine> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original 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.

Hello Philippa, No reprimand intended. My thoughts were for the new researchers who may have got the idea that they should look for bmd certificates issued previous to 1837. Regards, Dennis. -----Original Message----- From: Philippa Cooper Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 5:07 AM To: kent-eng@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] KENT-ENG Digest, Vol 9, Issue 4 Dear Dennis Thank you for the reprimand - reminded me of my achool reports of some 65 years ago - "Philippa is sometimes loose with the facts". I should have said birth details rather than used the word certificate. Came from the family bible in his mother's handwriting. I am actually aware that registration didn't commence until 1835. Thank you for the reminder. Cheers Philippa ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:10:59 -0000 From: "dennis bramble" <d.bramble@mypostoffice.co.uk> Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] Frederick Friend To: <kent-eng@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <610B73A4B12F40EEA4C606F68C4CCAE8@emachine> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original 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. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message