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From: "Francoise Seguin" <>
Subject: Re: [ONT] Now what do I do?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:06:18 -0400
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Thanks Mary for trying but one is a City and the other is for the Dominion
of Canada, Province of Ontario documents. If you read the above you will get
the reason that I think it could be an error made by his Mother Sarah Annie
(Stanley) Balcombe. thanks again for trying, Have A Good Day, Fran
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From: "Crandall Family" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [ONT] Now what do I do?


>
>
> The exact dates suggest that the birth was registered correctly the first
> time
> and then registered a second time [perhaps the registrar forgot that he
> had included it in the proper year?] .. but the registrar put the wrong
> year on it when he wrote it in the books the second time.
>
> Also, the parents could have notified the registrar the first time......
> and then a parish priest could have submitted a list of names, at a later
> date, of those he had baptised & the wrong year got put on it.
>
> The vital stats registers are full of errors.
>
> Mary
>
>
>
>
> At 06:46 AM 05/24/2006, you wrote:
>>In a message dated 5/24/2006 12:04:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> writes:
>>
>>
>> > To whom ever can help,
>> > I have found two birth certificates for my ggGrandfather exactly one
>> > year
>> > apart
>> > one January 15 1893 and the other January 15 1894. Both
>> registered with the
>> > city of Ottawa Carleton County Ontario. The only difference is that
>> > the
>> > names have been set in different order one is Sidney Harold
>> Georges Balcombe and
>> > the other is Harold Sidney Georges Balcombe. the question is which one
>> > is
>> > the right one? Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Fran
>> >
>>
>>Well, my first reaction would be to go with the earlier one, because a
>>birth
>>could not be registered in advance, like a baptism couldn't precede a
>>birth.
>>BTW, was there a baptism?
>>
>>However, it might also be two births, the first child having died, and the
>>family reusing the name.
>>
>>Cathy (Knight)
>>
>>
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