Gordon Road Workhouse Infermery

[soloist]

I know that my grandmother died in the workhouse infermery in 1908.  My father , born in 1907 does not appear to have been born there, but was taken into the infermery when he was a few monthes old.  He stayed there until his grandmother took him home.  I have copies of this information, given to me by the workhouse recently.

However I can't find a birth certificate for him. The workhouse said he wasn't born there, and I haven't been able to find him anywhere else.  Is it possible for things like that to go unregistered?   For example, if his mother was very ill and gave birth to him in the infermery, could his birth have slipped through the loop?

Has anyone got any good ideas for me to look into, please. Thank you, Soloist.

[charlotteCH]

Soloist, could you tell us where you have already looked for the birth record?

charlotte

[soloist]

The LMA gave me photocopies of dad's time spent in the workhouse infermery, and these show the date he entered the workhouse,  the date he left,  and the date he went back again. and copies too of his mothers death,  and her time spent there.   They also said that he MUST have been registered at birth, wherever that was.   I think that he could well have been born in the workhouse, but I don't know how to pursue that avenue   Also, if his mother was terribly ill (as she was) perhaps no-one got around to doing  it.  Is it possible to apply to the local registry office and ask them to look up his birth?  I haven't done this as I thought that if it wasn't in the Records Office then it wouldn't be in the local one.  Can you make head or tale of this?   I do have the certificate of a George Golding born at the same time, but the information on it clashes with what I know about all of us.  Dad was a Walter George Golding.  Thank you for your interest. Soloist

[stanmapstone]

There is a possibility that his birth registration was missed off the quarterly returns to the GRO, and that the local office will have his registration. The other possibility is that he was not registered with the name Golding, or he was and the name has been wrongly indexed,  a search on the registrations for Camberwell, if that is where he was born has two Walter Georges, one with the surname Benetts, and the other Spires.

Stan