Looks like the “original” may be a fake, too.
See
http://www.bomford.net/worcestershire/images/DavidJeffreyBomfordBirthCertDoc65.jpg.
Someone posted this elsewhere:
I wanted to see if I could find any images of similar documents from Kenya around the same time period that could be compared to the certificate on the web. I spent several hours with Google image search on that before I decided to broaden my search outside of Kenya-specific documents.
It was some time later that I finally spotted a thumbnail on one of the results pages that looked very much like the Kenyan certificate. I pulled up the full size image and found that it was virtually EXACTLY the same type of document.
It was a scanned image of a “Certified Copy of Registration of Birth” dated in 1964 for a David Jeffrey Bomford on a genealogy website for the Bomford family. Except that David Jeffrey Bomford wasn’t born in Kenya, he was born in South Australia. But what was even more interesting was certain other features of the document as compared to the Kenya certificate.
The names of the registrar and the district registrar were the SAME NAMES as given in the Kenya certificate save for the first initials, i.e. G.H. Lavender and J.H. Miller in the Bomford document versus E.H. Lavender and M.H. Miller in the Kenya document.
Also, the book number (44B) and page number (5733) were the exactly the same on both documents.
The image of the Bomford certificate seems to prove beyond any doubt that not only is the Kenya certificate a fake, but that whomever faked it used the Bomford certificate as the template.
Blimey.
Oh...well, there ya go too :-) Thanks, that’s pretty much put the nail in that coffin.
Well. That’s a find right there.
People may want to look at Technical Editor’s post #291. Good find.
WOW
I was already skeptical. Hard to see how anyone can believe it is not a fake after viewing the other certificate you found.
I wish it would have been the smoking gun that would have brought him down, but it clearly isn't.
on post 52, that is a 67(something)3
That much I can see. But it looks pretty darned weird now. The other similarities are really troubling.
This post should have it’s own thread. It needs to get more attention as it may possibly show this document as being a hoax.
See http://www.bomford.net/worcestershire/images/DavidJeffreyBomfordBirthCertDoc65.jpg
That looks pretty conclusive to my untrained eye. Notice the information at the top as well as the names of the officials.
This appears to be the form from which the Kenyan BC was generated. In my mind at least, unless something new comes to light, the Kenyan BC is a forgery... KF Lavender or EF Lavender notwithstanding.
Great find!! Where did you find the picture and what was it’s created date?
Wow..the plot thickens.
PING!
I am a Johnny Come Lately. Will you post a thread on this? I believe it’s pretty conclusive that the whole thing is bogus.
And just what makes you think that the Bomford document is not fraudulent and was not created from the Kenyan one????
That’s pretty convincing TechE. What a great find. Thanks for posting.
Ballgame........rats.
Not so fast.
Australia didn't gain legal independence from Great Britain until 1986 with the passage of the Australia Act.
Both Kenya and Australia were possessions of Great Britain. It's NOT inconceivable that both would use the same form or at least similar forms to make it easier for Great Britain to register and process its citizens. It's also not inconceivable that the same bureaucrats would appear on documents that are less than two years apart. We're assuming that Lavender was in Kenya..but what if he were a British bureaucrat?
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! The mystery is solved!
Congratulations, Technical Editor!
I do hope Queen Orly of Birfertania enjoys her plane ride across the pond.
The only thing I don’t understand is why is the book number (44B) and page number (5733) in a different font on each document? It has been an interesting ride, that’s for sure.
