I think there may have been something odd about Bootle registrations at that time. FreeBMD has an useful table mapping page numbers to volumes. For Bootle, 1837 and 1838 are missing from the table!
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27-06-2020, 11:11 AM #11
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27-06-2020, 11:26 AM #12
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Sorry, Peter, but the copies from the churches/chapels are sent to the register office for the district, from where they're forwarded to the GRO. (That's why the local register office couldn't provide marriage certificates unless you knew where the marriage took place. It's different nowadays since a lot of the local offices have indexed/digitised their records.)
I've just checked the births and deaths for 1838. Again, most of the entries have a letter after the page number, so I reckon that all of the registers for Bootle registration district were late being sent to the GRO. It does seem to be a very small registration district. No doubt one of those where the population is small, but quite a large land area.
1841 census records 5,511 people in Bootle registration district. I've checked out some of the registration districts in Lincolnshire (another rural county but with at least one fairly large town in each district), and the lowest one was nearly 17,000.
I wouldn't give too much credence to the idea that a certain letter represents a particular month.
It's always good to know what things mean ... might provide an important clue.
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27-06-2020, 2:59 PM #13
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Sorry, Peter
Cripes, Pam. You'll be telling me that Father Christmas doesn't exist next
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