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Title: Cant find birth
Post by: Kerrill on Saturday 30 August 25 10:00 BST (UK)
Have been searching through different sites for the birth of a James Keogh born 22 may 1910 in or around Ballinasloe Ireland, any help or advice would be much appreciated.
Title: Re: Cant find birth
Post by: Neale1961 on Saturday 30 August 25 10:10 BST (UK)
Do you have him in the 1911 census?
Who were his parents?
Title: Re: Cant find birth
Post by: Neale1961 on Saturday 30 August 25 10:12 BST (UK)
1911 census?
With parents Thomas and Lizzie?
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Ballinasloe_Urban/Market_Square/448444/


ADDED
Marriage of parents Thomas KEOGH and Lizzie GAVIN
4th April 1910
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1910/09985/5631152.pdf
Title: Re: Cant find birth
Post by: Kerrill on Saturday 30 August 25 10:16 BST (UK)
Yes I have every other record census  marriage and death but no birth
Title: Re: Cant find birth
Post by: Neale1961 on Saturday 30 August 25 10:21 BST (UK)
No, I can't see a birth.
Maybe not registered. Perhaps too close to marriage of parents?
His sister Mary born in 1911 was registered.
Title: Re: Cant find birth
Post by: Kerrill on Saturday 30 August 25 21:11 BST (UK)
Would he not need a birth cert when he married ( proof as to who he was ? )
Title: Re: Cant find birth
Post by: Wexflyer on Tuesday 02 September 25 01:15 BST (UK)
Quote from: Kerrill on Saturday 30 August 25 21:11 BST (UK)
Would he not need a birth cert when he married ( proof as to who he was ? )

Why would you think that?  No. He would need a baptismal certificate, if he married Catholic.
Title: Re: Cant find birth
Post by: Kerrill on Tuesday 02 September 25 07:38 BST (UK)
Many years ago I was searching for my fathers birth cert (on line) but could not trace it, I was told by a person that he would have had to show some kind of proof to who he was before he could marry so I automaticly thought birth cert, I did find it  years later after calling into many offices around Ireland .
                         
                                                That person was a christian brother so I thought at the time
                                                   it was true.   
Title: Re: Cant find birth
Post by: frostyknight on Wednesday 03 September 25 22:26 BST (UK)
Even as late as 1910, many births were never registered at all. As Wexflyer says, it was sufficient to show a baptismal cert if the person was a Catholic.

Title: Re: Cant find birth
Post by: Kerrill on Thursday 04 September 25 08:17 BST (UK)
Thanks Frosty