On 2022-10-31 13:36:30 +0000, Jenny M Benson said:
According to the Parish Register of Baptisms for St James's,
Accrington, Rebecca Rushton, daughter of Robinson Rushton (an Inn
keeper in Accrington) & Ellen was born on 11 August 1843 and baptized
on 16 August 1843.
According to the Parish Register of Baptisms for St Bartholomew's,
Great Harwood, Rebecca Rushton, daughter of Robinson Rushton (an Inn
keeper in Accrington) & Ellen was born on 24 July 1843 and baptized on
06 September 1843.
I think we can safely rule out this being 2 different children.
Robinson and Ellen had all their other children baptized at Great
Harwood so why was their last baptized in Accrington AND in Gt Harwood?
And who made the mistake in the birth date?
I doubt whether there is any mystery about how the errors came to be
made. We need to remember that the people responsible for preparing the
entries may not be very intelligent, well educated, and highly trained
(or well paid), and in most cases they don't know the families
concerned.
Not long ago I needed a copy of my father's birth certificate for some
French administrative purpose. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in
1908. I suspect that at that time Nova Scotia was more primitive than
England, but maybe not all that much. They didn't issue birth
certificates in 1908, but I obtained a photocopy of the entry in the
official register. There I found:
1. My father's second given name was so garbled as to be unrecognizable;
2. His mother's name omitted the given name she actually used;
3. His father was listed as a steel worker, which he never was, not
even approximately;
4. His place of birth was misspelt;
5. The name of the person making the return (my grandmother) included a
phantom initial.
--
Athel -- French and British, living mainly in England until 1987.
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