From: myths@ic24.net   
      
   On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 09:01:51 +0000, Graeme Wall   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 10/01/2022 23:34, cecilia wrote:   
   >> When might mother's occupation appear on a full birth certificate in   
   >> England in the years between WW2 and 1984?   
   >>   
   >> In thje last few years, I have come across three GRO birth   
   >> certificates from London registration districts where  the mother was   
   >> the informant and no father was named.   
   >>   
   >> It's not always possible to be sure of what's in an image in a   
   >> television programme, but in each case there seemed to be, after the   
   >> mother's name, an occupation and an address - presumably place of work   
   >> since it differed from the residential address in her entry as   
   >> informant.   
   >>   
   >> How normal was it to include cccupation of the mother if she was the   
   >> only parent listed?   
   >>   
   >> How common was it for any parent's details to include a place of work   
   >> as well as an occupation?   
   >   
   >My father's birth certificate gives his father's place of work: Civil   
   >servant (War Office), though that may be an anomaly.   
      
   Interesting.  Thank you [though as I was once told (though I've never   
   checked) that all Government employees were Civil Servants for   
   passport purposes etc until the early 1960s, I'd be tempted to think   
   that "(War Office)" was more a departmental division than an address.   
   Note to self: check the census occupation and occupation code for   
   someone I think was in the Colonial Office by 1911.]   
      
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