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Birth Reg query
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lavender | Report | 7 Oct 2016 22:28 |
That's interesting InspectorGreenPen.. many thanks for responding. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 5 Oct 2016 11:29 |
My wife has ancestors from Dublin, late 1800's. |
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lavender | Report | 4 Oct 2016 23:25 |
Many thanks everybody, question answered :-) :-) :-) |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 4 Oct 2016 10:39 |
The birth and death of an un named infant was often registered on the same day. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 4 Oct 2016 09:29 |
Quite often .in my research , I have found such birth regs are for a baby that died soon after birth . |
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mgnv | Report | 3 Oct 2016 23:12 |
The legal requirement is that you register the birth. There is no requirement that the child ever be named. If you look at a 1914 b.cert, there is a special column (col 10) for names added after registration, but there is no requirement that the child's name be entered there after naming. |
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lavender | Report | 3 Oct 2016 18:42 |
All very interesting, thank you very much. :-) |
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KathleenBell | Report | 3 Oct 2016 17:23 |
Perhaps the father was away fighting and the mother did not want to decide on a name before hearing from him. You only have six weeks in which to register a birth and it may have taken longer than this for the father to be told about the birth. |
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Potty | Report | 3 Oct 2016 16:55 |
There were 68 births recorded 1914/18 for "Smith, Male" and 73 deaths, 72 of them for infants under 1. Possibly children who died very soon after birth and were not named. So sad! |
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ArgyllGran | Report | 3 Oct 2016 16:23 |
Perhaps they just hadn't decided on a name. |
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lavender | Report | 3 Oct 2016 15:53 |
I am just wondering why a birth in WW1 years would be registered simply as Smith (Male)? |