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Help with TWIN birth records please?
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RStar | Report | 10 Aug 2009 20:36 |
I have the birth cert of a Robert Markham born 1842 in Brackley, Northants. The time of birth is given on the cert, and the registrars assistant informed me that this was usually only done for multiple births. On subsequent census reports there are no other children in the family born 1842 so he/she may have died prior to 1851. How do I find out if Robert had a twin? He was born disabled, and I think this adds weight to the twin theory, as his mother was a pauper giving birth in an ag labs cottage, it would be very easy for something to go wrong in a multiple birth with little or no medical intervention. (I do know that if the twin was stillborn I cant access the list.) |
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Helen in Bucks | Report | 10 Aug 2009 20:48 |
you might have done this already but look on freebmd for a birth and a death with the same surname in the same quarter, bear in mind the child might not have been named in which case will be Male or Female and the surname |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 10 Aug 2009 20:53 |
It looks to be Richard Charles. He was registered same quarter on page 200. (Robert was entered on page 199) Can't see any others. |
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 10 Aug 2009 20:55 |
I don't see any other Markhams with the same or adjacent page numbers. |
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 10 Aug 2009 21:00 |
Richard Charles belongs to another family: |
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Kate | Report | 10 Aug 2009 21:01 |
It might be an overenthusiastic registrar - I have heard that early certificates often had times of birth on even for single births because the registrars - or parents - thought that every possible bit of information had to be provided. I've got an 1853 birth certificate giving a time of birth that looks like 4.45PM under the date but the baby in question doesn't seem to have had a twin. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 10 Aug 2009 21:04 |
Be careful |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 10 Aug 2009 21:04 |
snap Kate! |
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RStar | Report | 10 Aug 2009 21:09 |
Oh Lordi I went to do the washing up and have 8 replies. Thankyou everyone.... I did think it was Richard, BUT Robert's mother had a son named Richard already, who died in 1869. Thanks for that census entry Rose, that clarifies it. Kate and Sylvia, you may be right then, it could have been an over enthusiastic registrar! Never mind, I had hoped he'd have a twin. His father died young and Roberts mum remarried but then Robert vanished, and she died in the workhouse. What a life, I hope he was happy though. Helen, thats a good idea about the 'male' and 'female' naming, will have a mooch now. |
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 10 Aug 2009 21:35 |
Was Robert's mother Hannah and did she marry a Moss? |
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RStar | Report | 10 Aug 2009 22:06 |
Yes, Hannah Seeney married John Markham, then was widdowed and married a Moss. |
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 10 Aug 2009 22:40 |
OK, I see Robert in 1871 and then he disappears. |
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