« Reply #452 on: Monday 27 January 25 22:46 GMT (UK) »
Two siblings in my extended family called Topsey Twinn and Totsey Twinn.
In regard to Noel's as a first or middle name around December, I found that my local city has birth returns from 1837 to 1961 viewable in the library and I was looking for the birth of a relatively distant cousin in early 1930, I was briefly sidetracked and found a guy with the middle name Noel, born at Christmas 1929, appearing in the births registered in the week ending first week or so in Feb 1930 in the city. Christmas birth. I think those city birth returns were copied from the civil registration returns into a separate register for the city alone. So his birth will appeared in Births registered in Jan, Feb, Mar 1930 but like with many others registered in those 3 months, many would have been born Nov or Dec 1929.
It may confuse a newbie to genealogy at first, looking for the birth record in the GRO indexes itself, knowing already from before that someone in the family was born Xmas 1929 but their birth appears in the list of births registered in the first quarter of 1930 - and not the last quarter of 1929. Someone who is familiar with the indexes would explain to the newbie it is births registered in Jan, Feb March 1930, and 6 weeks was allowed usually to register a birth. Thus a birth in late November 1929 for example registered on 2nd Jan 1930 will appear in the list of births registered in the first quarter of 1930.
My great gran died in early March 1930 but I only found the date when I got the death cert, as up to then knowing what I know about the civil reg system, I knew the death was registered in the first quarter of 1930, but for all I knew it could have taken place in December 1929. I had known by then that 5 days was usually allowed to register a death unless inquest delayed it, or other circumstances.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain
