I've never seen that but the first thing to come to mind is "His Signature" and as per Declaration could be like a Notary Public? Is the document typed? If so it was transcribed from original and there probably wasn't a way to duplicate a signature in '47. Gale Gorman Houston On Jun 20, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Diane wrote: Hi there, Diane here. Please could anyone kindly tell me what this means do you think? On MY birth certificate is says where is says description of informant: Arthur William Margrie of 205 Alma Avenue essex Hornchurch Father H S as per Declaration dated 28th July 1947 What does: H S as per Declaration dated 28th July 1947 mean please, I have always wondered about that!! Thanks very much for any answers that you might be able to give to me. Diane
The declaration means that your family had moved from where you were born and tried to registered your birth at a different registry office , they then had to sign a declaration which would be sent to the registrar where you were born. The same thing happened with my grandfather. Ray Martin ======================================== Message Received: Jun 20 2012, 07:37 PM From: "Gale Gorman" To: "Diane" Cc: Roots@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Birth certificate query MY birth certificate I've never seen that but the first thing to come to mind is "His Signature" and as per Declaration could be like a Notary Public? Is the document typed? If so it was transcribed from original and there probably wasn't a way to duplicate a signature in '47. Gale Gorman Houston On Jun 20, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Diane wrote: Hi there, Diane here. Please could anyone kindly tell me what this means do you think? On MY birth certificate is says where is says description of informant: Arthur William Margrie of 205 Alma Avenue essex Hornchurch Father H S as per Declaration dated 28th July 1947 What does: H S as per Declaration dated 28th July 1947 mean please, I have always wondered about that!! Thanks very much for any answers that you might be able to give to me. Diane ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message