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Registration - time limits? (Discrepancy in ages)
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AllanC | Report | 11 Jul 2009 22:09 |
As birth registration wasn't compulsory till 1875, does anyone know if there were any time limits on registration when it was first introduced in 1837? My g-g'mother's age as given on her marriage cert and BMD index for her death puts her birth as 1842-3. But she appears in the 1841 census, age 1, indicating birth as 1839-40. In the 1851 census her age is almost unreadable but looks like 10 or 11. Searching freeBMD for births June 1838 to Dec 1845 throws up only one entry in the appropriate county, for the September quarter 1841. |
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AllanC | Report | 11 Jul 2009 23:19 |
Ricochet and Carolyn: |
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Battenburg | Report | 12 Jul 2009 02:49 |
I have a birth that wasnt registered until 3 months afterwards. Her mother had died 8 days after giving birth and she was a widow so her sister was the informant. The baby was born in 1916 and wasnt registered till 1917 mar qt |
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Julie | Report | 12 Jul 2009 07:04 |
Quinsgran |
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lancashireAnn | Report | 12 Jul 2009 10:01 |
this is the only one appearing on Cheshire bmd in the Macclesfield area, unfortuneately it lumps several years together so exact year not shown |
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mgnv | Report | 12 Jul 2009 10:17 |
I can find an Ellen Casey d/o James + Alice a=1(1841), a=10(1851), a=27(1871) in Cheshire, each time with parents and sis Elizabeth b abt1847. I can find an Ellen, visitor in rg9/2582 a=20(1861) and elsewhere in rg9/2582, a James, Head b abt1806. There's no sign of Alice or Eliz - maybe they're in Ireland visiting in-laws. |
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mgnv | Report | 12 Jul 2009 10:20 |
Macclesfield Registration district contained a slew of parishes, including: |
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Melody | Report | 12 Jul 2009 23:15 |
my birth certificte, i was registered 2 months after i was born. But i think because i was adopted out . |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 13 Jul 2009 00:07 |
There is also the basic fact that most of our ancestors were illiterate .... so often didn't know how to spell their names, didn't always know where they were born or how to spell place names, and birthdays meant little to them, so they didn't know how old they were!! |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 13 Jul 2009 00:15 |
I presume this is Ellen in 1841 |
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Battenburg | Report | 13 Jul 2009 02:56 |
Julie. |
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AllanC | Report | 13 Jul 2009 12:42 |
Thanks everyone for your helpful replies. I'll have to sit down with them and work out what they all mean, but I think I can see where they're leading. |