From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 13/01/2022 00:03, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   No, he was definitely a civil servant, I still have his bowler hat!   
   Joined the Civil Service 1909, retired 1952.   
      
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