An elusive Birth registration *COMPLETED*

[suzs]

Is there anyway a NZ birth registration can be searched if only the birth date is known?  The name may have been changed later for a number of reasons - none of which are known, adoption/illegitimate etc.  His name that he was always known as is not in the registrations at all and I am assured that in 1918 he would/should have been registered.

Getting desperate here!

Suz

[Lucy2]

His name that he was always known as is not in the registrations at all and I am assured that in 1918 he would/should have been registered.

Hi Suz

When you say "not in the registrations" does that mean that you have looked at the microfiche version of the NZ birth index   ?
[If he had a birthyear of 1918, then he wouldn't show up on the online birth index which only lists births up to today's date/month ... 1910.]

Lu

[suzs]

Hi Lu

Yes I have checked them on numerous occasions but he is not there under the name he has always known.  But he never new his parents and never had a birth registration that was obvious, just grew up thinking he was illegitimate.

Thanks

[Lucy2]

Hi Suz

Mmm ... okay. 

"Never knew his parents"  ?

*  Do you have info from his marriage or death printouts ?

*  If so, are "parents / supposed parents" names given ?

If you'd rather not to put his particulars on this thread, you could send me a PM with the details. 

~  Lu 

 

[suzs]

Hi again

It is my Dad and he only discovered he had no birth registration of any kind until he was 60! he grew up in an orphanage and then placed on a farm as help so never knew where or who he belonged  to - wasn't allowed to ask in those days.  This has been a 15 year search all to no avail, but I am sure he must have been registered and later had been given a change of name, possibly when he was put in the orphanage.  He somehow managed to stay unknown until he appeared in his first school records.    I thought somehow the registrations may be in date of birth order in the records at BDM but obviously not. So this is a bit of a wild goose chase.

Thanks

[Janette]

Hi suzs,

I have PMed you my experience it may help,

Cheers Janette

[aniph]

I suppose you have tried the orphanage to see if they have records somewhere?

[SPC]

Have you tried locating records from the Women's Christian Temperance Union (under whose governance Willard Home operated)?

[suzs]

Been there done that, probably know more about the orphanage than they did! but no records anywhere.  Seems they had a fire at some stage and possibly records went with it.  WCTU kept minimal files on their inmates.  It has always amazed me how a little guy from birth to 5 could be non-existent in any records whatsoever considering he had no parents - not around him anyway.  So you see it's a bit of a needle in a haystack.

Sue