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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Shellspacebabe on Wednesday 20 February 13 12:17 GMT (UK)
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Hello
Does anyone know the official time you had to register a birth in the 1960's ? was it within 6 months or longer? I'm not sure if its the same as today but I believe you have to register a childs birth within 6-12 months?
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Births then, as now, have to be registered within 6 weeks.
https://www.gov.uk/register-birth
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The relevant Act is the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953.
Although Part I Section 2 states that information concerning birth has to be given to registrar within forty–two days, Part I Section 6 covers Registration between three and twelve months from date of birth, and Part I Section 7 Registration after twelve months from date of birth.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/contents
Stan
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ok thank you doesnt explain why my birth wasnt registered for over 3 years ??? but good to know the legal as such obligations :)
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The later entry may be a re-registration, correcting or updating an ealier entry.
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I agree with dawnsh. My son shows up as registered 4 years later than his birth but that was because I had to re-register him when I married his father - the original earlier doesn't show up in searches so could well be the reason or something similar as your birth query
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Oh Ok thats intereresting I think my parents did marry in October 1963 or 64 and my sister was born 1965 they registered us both together summer 1965 by then I was 3 years old, I wonder if I can check for an earlier entry?
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Actually I just did a check after answering you and both my sons birth regs appear on Ancestry but only the later one on FindMyPast.
Have you tried a forename and mothers maiden name - leaving the surname blank - for the year/place of birth check?
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Hello
good idea will give that a try
:)
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You say you "think" your parents married in 1963/64. That is easy enough to check http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
Be prepared though for anything you may discover.With this searching into lives, we sometimes uncover things our families would rather have kept hidden.... :-\
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Unfortunately freebmd has only just got to the 1960's and is far from complete for this era.
You will need a subscription site to check for a marriage if there isn't an entry on freebmd.
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Shells....
send me a private mail with your details and I will look it up for you.
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Larkspur, that's why when you find these things best kept hidden you bite your lip.
There have been several threads about this already; what is the right thing to do etc.
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Bite my lip..... ??? So I should make an executive decision and not tell "what I think is best kept hidden" How do I know what others may want "kept hidden".
We do not, I hope, go into this blindly and we know there are maybe going to be bodies in the closet at some stage. Some people even enjoy that aspect. I have found many in mine and yes some were shocking. But would I want them to be hidden from me? Absolutely not, everything I have found has put skin on the bones of my family, and after all is that not what this is all about, and not just empty name collecting. I have found out things about my family, that has explained a lot of past behaviours for me, I would not have missed that for the world.
As for anyone else, that is their decision if they want to find these things out. If they ask for help, I will try my best. I will not push things.I will tell them everything I find.
I will not look unless someone specifically asks me to.
Their decision, not mine .
I was not discussing the "right thing to do", just pre warning of possible suprises that may be found.
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Yes I tend to agree with Larkspur on this it is what I consider to be my family history and I find it all very exciting and adds flesh to the bones :)
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Hi All.
I thought I would look up my son's birth on Anc**** as we had a middle
name added before he was a year old in memory of my mother-in-law's
brother who died.
So by looking up his original birth names he can not be found, but adding the
extra initial his entry is listed.
The original image though shows just his 2 fornames and surname.
Why they indexed it that way goodness knows. :)
Sandy
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Larkspur, it was not intention to criticise you. I was referring to the comment about telling other family members. I have unintentionally upset others in my extended family circle by telling them about some of the things I have found. I am of the same mindset as you, the more I find out about these ancestors is the more I feel I come to know them almost. Good or bad, it doesn't matter to me; I have even been saddened by some things I have found, but it still fleshes out my family tree.
Unfortunately, not every one feels the same, so unless I am specifically asked, I don't always share info any more.
Once again, apologies if I caused offence.
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No offence taken :)
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Just a little addition to this.....I seem to remember that in the 1960/70s most babies (particularly first ones) were born in hospital or maternity homes. New Mums generally stayed there for the first ten days !!! - I can remember the registrar coming to thew hospital a couple of times a week and new Mums went into an office there and registered the birth. It is likely that the first birth cert. was registered under your mother's maiden name if she wasn't married.