Delayed certificate of birth of Mollie Frances Holbrook, born 4 Dec 1870, filed at Island County 17 May 1930

A Washington State Board of Health certificate of birth made out sixty years after the event, marked "#1" and stamped "FILED MAY 17 1930, R. C. Maylor [?], County Clerk." Read from the Archives' two-page PDF by Claude, 11 Oct 2026.

• Place: County of Island; town of Coveland; place of birth "Penn's Cove, or Coveland, (San de Fuca)."
• Child: Mollie Frances Holbrook; girl; single birth; legitimate; born Dec 4, 1870.
• Father: Richard Blackmer Holbrook, of Coveland, Whidby Island; white; born Plymouth, Massachusetts; farmer.
• Mother: Harriet Phillips Low, of Coveland, Whidby Island; born Deer Isle, Maine; occupation "Mother." Number of this child: "?"; children of this mother now living: two.
• No physician or midwife signed.

Page 2, affidavit. "Horace Holbrook, of Coupeville, Washington, being first duly sworn, on his oath deposes and says: that he was born on January 3rd, A.D. 1863, and is a brother of Mollie Frances Holbrook whose birth is reported on the attached Certificate of Birth; that he has prepared and furnished the information given in the Certificate of Birth hereto attached; that the facts therein stated are within his own knowledge and are true as therein given." Signed Horace Holbrook; sworn 17 May 1930 before James Zylstra [?], notary public at Coupeville.

So the date rests on Horace's word in 1930, when he was 67 and she 59. The territorial census of April 1871 (1871 Washington Territory census, Island County: R. B. Holbrook household) has her aged 3/12, born within the year in January.