>Original message > >Hi All, >If you were married in 1870, did you have to provide your birth >certificate, or did you just put what you were known by. >I have John Alfred CAWTE age 26 married on 1.1.1870, surely he would have >had to have been born in 1844. >So why could I only find a birth registration of John George CAWTE. >(George was his fathers name). >Could this one and the same person?? >Thanks. >Annette..South Wales. My great grandfather was christened and buried [ certificates for both events agree ] as James Charles Bartlett HALLETT yet was married, also in 1870, as Charles James Bartlett HALLETT and was known as Charles. I assume this was to avoid confusion with his father James. If I were Annette I would put my money on buying the certificate for John George CAWTE to see if parents are correct. Geoff Hallett, near Kingston, Canada