I've been tracing my FH for many years, but recently have reason to ask the following question regarding the registration of a birth...
Would it be possible for a baby to be born, but have his birth registered somewhere completely different?
I am tracking my husband's ancestors - surname TUNNEY - from the Liverpool area. Hugh TUNNEY (sometimes TUNNY or TUNEY) was born about 1842 - ish!
On the 1851 census his birth place was given as Bilston, Staffs (aged 11)
On the 1861 census his birth place was given as Stafford (aged 19)
Unable to find him on the 1871 census
On the 1881 census his birth place was given as Liverpool (aged 38)
He marries as a widower in 1883 - age given on the M Cert as 32!!
On the 1891 census his birth place was given as Staffordshire (aged 38!)
On the 1901 census his birth place was given as Bilson, Staffs (aged 50)
Hugh dies in 1910 in the Toxteth Park District, age given as 54!
This gives a possible birth year between 1840 and 1856!
For starters, I think I have to take the ages he gives with a pinch of salt (seeing as when he married in 1883 his new wife was only 18 and he already had at least 6 children with first wife Anne), but I am unable to find any Hugh Tunney (or other spelling) born in the Staffordshire area between 1840 and 1857, but I do find two Hugh's in the Liverpool District, one in 1842 and the other in 1845.
His father was also Hugh Tunney, a labourer, and according to the different census, children were born in Ireland, Scotland, Birmingham and Liverpool (as well as Staffs)!
If the family were in the process of moving from one place to another, is it feasible that Hugh's birth registration could have been done in Liverpool, even if he HAD been born in Staffs?
Has anyone else ever come across this conundrum??

Thanks.... Alison in chilly Swindon!