In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brenda Paternoster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >When a baby is born it is 'given' a first, and maybe a second or more >names. That names or names may or may not subsequently be used in >Christian baptism, in which case they become Christian names.
I haven't checked to see if it is still the case, but on my birth certificate there is a space where a forename may be added to the registered name on production of a baptismal certificate or certificate of naming within 12 months of the registration. If the full name given at Christian baptism is the one used at registration, then another forename cannot be added to the registered name later. It also says that if you apply for a full copy of the certificate, the name as first registered is shown (in column 2) as well as that added later (in column 10 - this one supersedes the first), but if you apply for a short certificate only the later name is shown. I can't say I've ever seen a certificate where a name has been added, though. Mistakes do happen when copies are produced - on the copy I have of my great parents' marriage certificate, the profession of the bride's father is shown as waitress! The bride in question is the one we are having trouble tracing back - Mary Ann Doust, nee Walker, aged 55 in 1901, her father was James Walker. On the census she is shown as being born in Birmingham, but so far we haven't been able to sort her from the many Mary Walkers in Birmingham at that time - possibly her father had another Christian name! I have her to thank for my temper - when her husband (my great grandfather, John Banner Doust) died in 1899, she took over the running of the pub they owned, but the staff left saying they did not wish to work for a woman, and by the 1901 census she had obviously given up and moved on to another address. I'm off to Worcester again tomorrow, to find out a bit more of the (Bromsgrove) Banner family - I have the sampler which Harriet Banner, John's mother, worked as a child in 1824. (She was daughter of Joseph Banner, a nailer in Bromsgrove - I suspect the hand made nails in the frame are of his making). -- Jane Partridge To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
