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Originally Posted by Merry
lol OC - Makes me wonder if someone helpfully wrote their surname down for them, in nice copperplate, so that when they visited the register office it wouldn't be difficult to get their name across if their spoken English perhaps wasn't great? They dutifully kept the piece of paper somewhere safe to be used for each registration. Pity it said Davies on it!!
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Originally Posted by Olde Crone
The vicar got it right though, for Florence at least, so I suspect it is transcription errors. Be interesting to find out!
I know all about that bit of paper, one of my ancestors carefully carried it round and used itfor every family registration event in Scotland for about 80 years. Pity the mother 's surname does not exist anywhere on earth.
OC
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You’ve been posting while I wasn’t looking.
Ha ha. Interesting scenarios!