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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Australia Lookups completed => Topic started by: gramsie on Friday 08 August 08 19:05 BST (UK)
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Does anyone know what the prefix D means on a birth registration in Queensland?
On the website where I searched the historical records, there are several codes explained - but not the one I need!
Thanks
Margaret
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Hello Margaret
Welcome :D :D :D
yours is such a simple request but unfortunately no answer & for your first post a bit disappointing. Perhaps no-one else has had your problem. I would send them an email & ask for an explanation direct.
bdm-mail[at]justice.qld.gov.au
That way you will get the right answer to your problem.
Regards
Boydi
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Thanks Boydi for your welcome and also for the suggestion - I had decided that I'd have to email if no-one knew the answer, but I was was hoping that someone might! - maybe if I get a helpful answer when I email them, I'll post it here incase anyone has a similar query in the future
Margaret
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Hi Margaret,
And welcome from me!! :D :D
That's an excellent idea, to post here whatever solid info you get on this question. Rootschat is all about sharing what we know and find out, so that everyone may grow more knowledgeable!
Best wishes,
MarieC
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Hello there Gramsie
and Welcome to roots chat
I have the Pioneer Index for Qld so had a look at that to see if anything could be found to help you query.
reference
This number is assigned to the birth by the registery. It is made up of the year of registration, slash followed by numbers sometimes with a letter. The complete number is used to purchase a particular certificate. The following codes are e used in this field.
B = registration effected in the Brisbane Registery district
BP = baptism the child was born prior to compulsory registration
MAR = marine the child ws born en route to Australia
MB & LR = notification of birth received outside the Statutory period.
other letter are for administrative reasons
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Perhaps if you tell us where in the content of the birth certificate does the "D" occur
kind thoughts Jenn
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Hello Jenn
Thanks for your welcome and for looking to try and solve the query
The reference for the birth registration is 1926/D3472 although it comes up in a search of the historical index for 1913, so a very late registration or maybe an adoption?
It might not be significant to this but they may also have travelled back to England in 1926, they returned to Australia in May 1927, but I have no detail of the journey to England.
Regards
Margaret (aka Gramsie)
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Could it be the mothers child before their marriage? I know when researching for a friend I found three births from 1909 t0 1911 not registerd till 1940 but on the indexs for then, it appeared the woman had the children prior to the marriage they were the fathers but he was married to someone else.
Jenn
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The couple (who are listed as the parents on the registration index) married in England in 1913, just before sailing to Australia and only the 2 of them sailed over together, no baby.
Margaret
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Could there have been time to have had the baby at sea? Perhaps the baby was left behind born out of wedlock and then they went back to Uk and returned to Australia and had it registered in Qld?
Jenn
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I emailed 'justice.qld.gov.au' about the registration code - all that they could tell me was that the birth was re-registered in 1926. They could release no more information because of their access policy, which states that I would need written authorisation from herself (died in 1930), parents (probably both dec'd),children (none), siblings (none), grandparents (dec'd), grandchildren (none), spouse (none), or wait until 100 years has passed.
Does anyone know if the 100 years would be from her original birth in 1913 or the reregistration in 1926? They didn't answer that query either.
Margaret
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OOOHhh Margaret,!!!
Why am I not surprised!
They are unbelievable.
:o :o ??? ???
Sue
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hi Margaret
Coming in late on this one. I know someone else whose relative's birth was registered much later than their actual birth year. As Jenn said it could be that they may have adopted the child. If they arrived on their own in 1913 then unless they left the child in the UK would it be theirs?
Have you had a chance to look at the Incoming UK passenger lists to 1960 on Ancestry?? This might tell you if they took the child back to the UK with them c1926. You should be able to look at Ancestry at your main local library or FH centre.
Also if you can access Findmypast you should be able to see for sure that the child is nowhere on the passenger list with them when they arrive in 1913 and whether there when they return in 1927.
Hope this is of some help
Pauleen
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They arrived on their own in 1913 and when they returned to England in 1927, their daughter travelled with them - as i have just discovered from the incoming passenger lists, thanks for the suggestion: I haven't viewed the record but the search lists the 3 arriving in Hull