Help with searching for births - 1837-1843.

[Ewan]

Hello

Part 2 of my mission to find an elusive great granddad, can anyone help out please.

I am trying to find all children that were registered as 'male' Cox in the birth registration district of Birmingham, hopefully there aren't too many.

I have looked on freebmd and have found 5 they are:

June 1838 16 267    June 1839 16 286     June 1840 16 288     June 1841 16 340     June 1841 16 341

As freebmd is not quite complete at the moment I am wondering if there are any more to be found.  I am trying to find all births between September 1837 and at least December 1843.

Hoping that there is someone that can help with this search please.

Ewan

[Daisy Loo]

Here's 1837.

JAS - None

OND 1837 Edwin   Birmingham 16 216
OND 1837 John Augustus  Birmingham 16 192

just re-read your post, and realized what you are actually looking for 

Have looked through complete indexes of 1837 & 1838 & 1839 so far, only the two "male"s, that you already have.

[Daisy Loo]

and the rest of them up to 1843, and no more "males" registered in Birmingham apart from the ones you already have.  Funny the ones that you have were all born in the same quarter.  Looks like there are twins there as well.

[Sloe Gin]

Could he have been registered in Aston district?  I have a lot of Birmingham rellies and the two districts crop up a lot within the same family units.

I don't know how much info you have, but Birmingham Register Office are tremendously helpful, they go to a lot of trouble to help and save you wasting money on wrong certificates.  Don't be afraid to email or give them a ring and ask for advice, they even have a genealogist there to deal with FH enquiries.

[nanny jan]

Hi,

There's a chance that he was not registered;  have you looked for a baptism?



Nanny Jan

[Ewan]

Hello everyone and thanks for all your replies.

Thank you for checking the complete index for me, and I thought it strange when I found the ones on freebmd all registered in June, must be the month.

I have also checked on freebmd for births registered at Aston, I didn't find any but am not able to check the completed index so if anybody can have a look it would be appreciated, but saying that Daisy Loo may have mentioned if there had been any in Aston.

I can't agree more Birmingham Register Office are extremely helpful, I have let them know of 2 details that I would hope to find on a birth certificate and they will only issue it if these details are on the record.  I will post on here the outcome possibly late next week.

I have looked at baptisms Nanny Jan and the person that has come nearest to my great granddad's dad appears not to have baptised the boy with the full 3 names that I have documentation on already.  I know people call themselves different names after baptisms and some have said on here that there are instances where their ancestors have dropped middle names after baptsim but this one of mine seems to have added one!  So, unfortunately I just cannot confirm whether the baptism is he or not. 

We'll wait and see I suppose.  There is the problem that I cannot find his father on the 1841 census, so possibly the name is badly transcribed or the father died prior to the census, and I don't know what his mother's name was.

Ewan