From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 09:01:51, Graeme Wall    
   wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):   
   >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.   
   >   
   Or could it be that "(War Office)" was a way of indicating that the   
   person was not normally a government employee, but was co-opted (or some   
   such suitable term) for the duration, or part thereof?   
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