Genealogy Chat

Thanks DetEcTive I will try that and report any progress on this thread :-)

one other theory ... is it possible your father got hold of the wrong birth certificate?

because I wonder about this death

Deaths Mar 1927
Smith Amnon A age 0 Orsett 4a 784

because there is no such birth (any Smith birth in Orsett 1926-27 that would fit)

it would fit with the first Anthony birth, with your father then being the second

Births Sep 1926
Smith Anthony Turnage Orsett 4a 988
Births Jun 1928
Smith Anthony T Turnage Orsett 4a 969

as noted, people did mistake their own birthdays ... my grandfather born c1900 was 2 days and a year out on the date of his (his mother having died when he was young probably being a contributing factor) and didn't know until he retired.

Thanks for your input JoonieCloonie but I have found a birth record for Amnon A Smith, he was born in Edmonton, Oxfordshire J/F/M 1927 ref. 3a 865 mother maiden name Gudgeon.
I have emailed the church, "Our Lady Star of the Sea" in Tilbury to ask if they have a baptism record for my father which should be 1926 as they tended to get children baptised very young then. I have not received a reply yet.

grr, blast Freebmd :-)

Births Mar 1927
Smith Am_on A Gudgeon Edmonton 3a 865

I didn't use my wildcards :-D

good luck with the baptism - maybe ask them about the second Anthony too, to try to sort it out.

"Birth Certificate Puzzle" thread update.

I have now obtained baptism records for my father and his brother.

My father was born 3rd June 1926 with registered name "Anthony" on his birth certificate was Baptised "Anthony Thomas Smith" at Our Lady Star of the Sea RC church,Tilbury on 8th July 1926.

His brother was born 26 March 1928 with registered name "Anthony Thomas Smith" on his birth certificate but he was Baptised "Terence Peter Smith" also at Our Lady Star of the Sea RC church, Tilbury on 14 May 1928.
Unfortunately Terence Peter Smith died later the same year and was buried in December 1928.

I never heard anyone in the family mention Terence Peter and I still cannot understand why my grand parents would register their son with the name Anthony Thomas and then baptise him Terence Peter, I guess I will never know???

Thanks again to everyone for their contributions and help.

Terry :-)

So glad you were able to sort this! It is a very peculiar tale. Can't help thinking that there was a mistake in registering the birth of Terence- but I don't s'pose we'll ever know.

Thanks for updating us.

One almost wonders whether it was dear old (clueless) dad doing the registering :-)

and when someone asked him "what is your son's name?"

... he told them ...

:-)

You have certainly got it sorted out anyway!