1939 Register
Anyone else finding discrepancies in the dob on the register?
Had a number with the day wrong ie 7th instead of 8th but have now found a number with the year different too. ie 1907 instead of 1908 or other way around. |
Yes, I've found several that were one year out.
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Yes, I've had a few a few days or year out.
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Yes, not just errors in transcription, errors made in 1939, (and my uncle who died in 1962 is redacted).
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I meant errors in the information held, not transcriptions.
My 2g grandmother appears to have lied quite significantly as the date and year are nothing like her birth certificate but she is the only one of that name on the register with a 10 year check and I know she died in 1941. |
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My grandmother usually knocked three or four years from her age, but in 1939 she knocked off six years! She did always state Nov 8th for her birthday though. |
I've looked at thousands of records now - the 1939 register, censuses, parish registers, bmd certificates, tombstones, Wills, letters, settlement disputes. I've found errors in all of them. It's part of being human. I've got a few birthdates (either the day or the year) that are slightly out on the 1939 census although mostly they have tallied with information I already have.
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Yes, found a few myself. One of my mum's uncles put his baptism date down as his birthday, so I wonder how common that would have been.
I've noticed several that are a year out but with the correct date, though. |
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