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From: (P J Wallace)
Subject: Re: Puzzled
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:31:46 GMT
References: <a29vhh$vtf9t$1@ID-16587.news.dfncis.de>


Nowadays you are likely to get a photo reproduction of what is in the
original registers, but IIRC they might themselves have been
transcriptions of what was recorded at the church.
Also is it not possible that she learnt to write her name for the
wedding but might have felt just a little bit too tired to bother
after giving birth...?!
Patrick Wallace

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:31:28 -0000, "Tim" <> wrote:

>When one receives a certificate from a registrar of birth,marriage,and
>deaths are the details always written exactly as shown on original?

>why could she write when she
>was married in 1855
>but could not write when my gt grandmother was born in 1863.

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