Missing birth information
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| 1 | I have never been able to find an official birth certificate for my grandmother - May Stanford Davis born 1896 [this date is on her marriage certificate] or her sister Ellen Stanford Davis born [according to her marriage certificate ] 10 July 1895. Are some children never registered? Even if all the others in their family are? Any insights from wiser people than me is welcome. pskpinks - 2019-06-09 20:55:00 |
| 2 | What country? carbs51 - 2019-06-10 06:51:00 |
| 3 | Are these births the same family? if so they were registered much later maybe due to needing a birth cert for the pension or passport 1955/131864 Stanford-Davis Charles Phoebe John all born between 1890 and 1910 carbs51 - 2019-06-10 06:57:00 |
| 4 | Births 1901/3973 Davis Phoebe Phoebe John crab2 - 2019-06-10 07:51:00 |
| 5 | Yes - all New Zealand. Sometimes finding birth details is difficult, isn't it? This is a very large family from a very small township/rural area. It just seems strange that most are registered but some are not. pskpinks - 2019-06-10 09:02:00 |
| 6 | how many children were there crab2 - 2019-06-10 10:41:00 |
| 7 | Transcribers of early records don't always get it right especially with hyphenated/double banger names or given names which one more often thinks of as family names, hence one can find a person in a totally 'wrong' place. This is sometimes due to difficult to read script or it may be a presumption on the part of the transcriber or even a spelling error somewhere in the mix. Good Luck. brouser3 - 2019-06-10 12:05:00 |
| 8 | There were fourteen children between 1883 - 1909. I have looked at the surnames Davis, Stanford, Stanford-Davis and because there is no other family surnames I am at a loss. I need help from the Lost Birth Registration Fairy. Thank you for the input. pskpinks - 2019-06-10 13:36:00 |
| 9 | Have you considered that some bmd records may be lost over that time? As an example, I had been told that some Dargaville records were lost in a fire in the early part of last century and while there are no registered births for a few people in my husband's tree I was able to prove their existence using Catholic baptism records deano - 2019-06-10 18:29:00 |
| 10 | I hadn't thought of 'lost'. The births would have been registered in the Courthouse in Woodville or Masteron - which ever was nearest to Alfredton at the time of the birth. pskpinks - 2019-06-10 18:45:00 |
| 11 | deano wrote: Yes - I was looking for birth records from the Thames area and found 'tucked' away on a Q&A somewhere a statement that during a consolidation of records from various sources in the 60's it was found that it appeared a number of records from the early 1900's were missing ...….. which answered my query as to why a number of known family members didn't appear to be born 'anywhere' apart from family recollection and things such as marriage or death certs which gave birth date …. brouser3 - 2019-06-11 03:53:00 |
| 12 | I always look on FindMyPast to see if there are any spelling variations that haven't come up. You don't need a subscription and you can search just by parents' first names. My gg-grandparents only registered 4 out of their 9 children. Money was often an issue because you had to pay for it. rednicnz - 2019-06-11 09:31:00 |
| 13 | deano wrote: ironthrone990 - 2019-06-11 16:08:00 |
