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Births registered as Male / Female
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Helen in Bucks | Report | 11 Jan 2010 13:41 |
thank you both, think I will have to order both with mother's first name as checking point (have her on 2 censuses with this child so that seems to be a constant), sadly surname has been spelled so many different ways on so many different records that I can't use that for ref checking, and only evidence I have of father's name is her marriage cert (but clearly this could be a fib), he is not on any census with family |
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lancashireAnn | Report | 11 Jan 2010 13:38 |
the registration was not always corrected either. My gt grandfather's just says Male & there is no correction and obviously he did not die in infancy! I think if the name was added afterwards it is put in column 10 on the certificate. |
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Kathryn | Report | 11 Jan 2010 13:27 |
No it doesn't, it simply means that the parents had not yet named the child when they registered it. I can't remember how exactly, offhand, but registrations are then corrected when a name is chosed and registered, and I think that the certificates are then both under the same ordering code. Someone with more precise knowledge will explain better, I'm sure. |
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Helen in Bucks | Report | 11 Jan 2010 13:21 |
Does a registered birth without a first name i.e. as Male or Female Smith necessarily mean that the child died soon after birth? I am looking for a birth in around 1841 and there are a couple of possibles with Female rather than a first name, but didn't want to go to the expense of ordering a cert if this is likely to be child that later died. |