That's correct I have a pension application made by the oldest brother that says he was not sure of the date, thought it was 1901. Also, our great-grandmother had an interesting habit of putting her children's ages up or down depending on what advantage it was to them. So they were always arguing amongst themselves about their correct age. In 1949 she did a trip around England and Scotland checking at Somerset House in London first and then visiting all the places her older sister had listed and said the children had been born.Then purchasing birth certificates there for them. However, these even were not entirely accurate as working people having to depend on others when they went to town registering the children for you, did mean sometimes the names and spellings were not correct anyway. My grandmother didn't even know her Dads name was Nicol or the surname was spelled Rea not Rae before she did this I think the only correct certificate was her baby sister who grandma seemed to have named after 3 generations of the family maybe to get the message across that this is final. Perhaps that why he strayed, evidently he never smoked, drank or gambled and never hit them, was very handsome and the women were always chasing him, maybe this time, he thought that opportunity doesn't always knock twice and everyone was managing quite nicely without him working anyway. Thank you
