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Originally Posted by Olde Crone
I have a few early certs which have only the vaguest address. Presumably the Vicar/Registrar thought it wasn't important because everyone knew where so-and-so lived.
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In the 1980s, "Riverside Cottage, Xham" would reach my great-aunt. Admittedly, when I accepted a lift from a stranger (
- different times!) and mentioned her, he said, "Oh yes, I know Mrs Y"
Granny's birth certificate in the 1890s only names the village.
Interestingly, someone has posted the digital image of a birth in a Norfolk village in the 1860s, and the heading there only says when born, though in this case the hamlet is named.