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Boston return of birth form no. 10399 recording the birth of Donald Edwin Ponceby on 28 August 1902 at 142 Blue Hill Ave in Boston, with parents Walter G Ponceby and Margaret McKinnon.
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Birth Record for Donald Edwin Ponceby
Boston return of birth form no. 10399 recording the birth of Donald Edwin Ponceby on 28 August 1902 at 142 Blue Hill Ave in Boston, with parents Walter G Ponceby and Margaret McKinnon.
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- child name
- Donald Edwin Ponceby
- sex
- Male
- color as recorded
- White
- birth date
- 28 August 1902
- birth place
- 142 Blue Hill Ave, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
- parents residence
- 142 Blue Hill Ave, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
- father name
- Walter G Ponceby
- mother name as recorded
- Margaret McKinnon
- father occupation as recorded
- Engineer electrician
- father birthplace
- London, England
- mother birthplace
- Prince Edward Island, Canada
Birth
- Child
- Donald Edwin Ponceby
- Birth date
- 28 August 1902
- Birth place
- 142 Blue Hill Ave, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
- Sex
- Male
Parents
- Father Name
- Walter G Ponceby
Other details
- Color As Recorded
- White
- Parents Residence
- 142 Blue Hill Ave, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
- Mother Name As Recorded
- Margaret McKinnon
- Father Occupation As Recorded
- Engineer electrician
- Father Birthplace
- London, England
- Mother Birthplace
- Prince Edward Island, Canada
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- Manual transcription created from the cleaned repository PDF after automatic PDF text extraction failed.
- The return form is image-backed and handwritten.
- The father's occupation appears to read "Engineer Electrician" on the form.
- The physician signature and residence line at the bottom are not fully legible in the supplied scan and were not normalized as discrete facts.
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Return of a Birth to the City Registrar 5 Old Court House, Boston, Mass. Manual transcription from the birth return form: Record number: 10399 Date of birth: 28 August 1902 Surname: Ponceby Christian name: Donald Edwin Sex: Male Color: White Place of birth: 142 Blue Hill Ave, Boston Present residence of parents: ditto Full name of father: Walter G. Ponceby Christian and maiden name of mother: Margaret McKinnon Occupation of the father: Engineer electrician Father's birthplace: London, England Mother's birthplace: Prince Edward Island, Canada Notes: - Manual transcription created from the cleaned repository PDF after automatic PDF text extraction failed. - The return form is image-backed and handwritten. - The father's occupation appears to read "Engineer Electrician" on the form. - The physician signature and residence line at the bottom are not fully legible in the supplied scan and were not normalized as discrete facts.
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- county
- Suffolk
- place
- Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
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- form title
- Return of a Birth to the City Registrar
- filing office
- City Registrar, 5 Old Court House, Boston, Mass.
- record number
- 10399
- pages
- 1
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- User accepted this source on 3 June 2026 after visual review against the rendered birth return and citation page.
- This accepted birth return directly corroborates the Boston birth register entry for Donald Edwin Ponceby and provides stronger image-backed evidence for the same birth event.
- The Donald Edwin Ponceby birth event was updated to cite this source alongside the register entry.
- Transcript-25.pdf was checked on 22 April 2026 and is byte-for-byte identical to the preserved original download for this source; no duplicate source record was created.
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