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Thanks again. I found the information very interesting. I have one certificate with father's name but the others (dates before and after this cert) leave his name blank. Sometimes father's surname was given as second (christian) name of the child.

Thanks gardner, that makes sense. However if all registras were so picky we would have lots of blank space fathers. The family seems to have lived happily so still looking for other explanations.

I am not sure how you are getting on or if this can help but I had great problems with a birth in 1918. The writing on the certificate must have been terrible as Olive was down as Clive and the surname had a u replaced with an n (looking on bmd site) I knew the birth had taken place and eventually f...

Hello everyone. I must have posted here in the past but not recently so.. I have a household in the 1850 -1870 range where several of the births have father's name blank. From recent DNA results we are reasonably certain the father is the same man. On a couple of the certificates he is named but on ...