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Birth registration
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Terence | Report | 17 Jun 2008 12:48 |
A Yorkshireman. |
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Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) | Report | 17 Jun 2008 12:43 |
That's an odd one Gwyn ... wonder what that was about. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 17 Jun 2008 12:38 |
Jill |
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Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) | Report | 17 Jun 2008 12:24 |
I read somewhere (maybe one of those Family Tree magazines) of a chap who did some research on registrations. He compared baptisms in an area with registered births. He found quite a few gaps - I think there was a 20% or so "shortfall". In a large town I can understand this as there may have been a lot of movement but I recall that the area he was checking was not that large a place. |
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KeithInFujairah | Report | 17 Jun 2008 12:11 |
Joan, it always was a legal requirement from 1837 onwards to register births, the onus originally was on the registrar to collect the births, then in 1875 it became the parents responsibility to register, with a fine if failed to do so. |
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Shannette | Report | 17 Jun 2008 08:30 |
As far as I can tell the only one of my mother's siblings who had a birth cert was one who was killed in WW2 and they got that when he died for some reason. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 16 Jun 2008 20:18 |
Have you got either of the birth certificates for the girls who were registered late.? |
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Kathlyn | Report | 16 Jun 2008 19:30 |
Joan, |
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Kathlyn | Report | 16 Jun 2008 19:11 |
You have a point there Shannette and I can just imagine how difficult that could be for us researchers. |
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Shannette | Report | 16 Jun 2008 19:08 |
My mum was one of 13 children born in the 20s and 30s none of whom were ever registered. Perhaps it cost too much ?? |
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Kathlyn | Report | 16 Jun 2008 19:06 |
Oh MS, to be able to just pop back and view a scene from history!!!! |
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Clive & Susan | Report | 16 Jun 2008 19:00 |
I can only speculate: but perhaps if the same man fathered both children, he was around for a while after their births, and was not keen to be identified as father, and brought pressure to bear on the mother not to register the births. |
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Kathlyn | Report | 16 Jun 2008 18:57 |
I would agree with you MS, and I would suggest that both girls were illigitimate, but why they were not registered is puzzling me. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 16 Jun 2008 18:48 |
Were they registered perhaps with their father's surname, even though parents may not have been married. |
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Clive & Susan | Report | 16 Jun 2008 18:46 |
That suggests to me that the husband was not the father. |
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Kathlyn | Report | 16 Jun 2008 18:27 |
Can anybody please offer me any ideas as to why someone would have two children, a year apart, but not register either of them. |