Still born child

[mrs griff]

Would a full term baby still born be registered as a death , date around 1934-1936
 
Mrs Griff   

[aghadowey]

What country? If England: "On 1st July 1927, stillbirth registration commenced."
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/civilreg.html

[mrs griff]

The country was Wales so do it apply .

[stanmapstone]

The relevant act was the 1926 Act for the registration of births and deaths in England and Wales The Act did not apply to Scotland or Northern Ireland.
Stan

[mrs griff]

Thanks hope I find what I am looking for
Mrs Griff

[Valda]

Hi

The stillbirth GRO index (from 1927 onwards) is not public - you have to apply directly to the GRO. A stillbirth would not be registered as a death but as a stillbirth and would not appear in either the public birth birth or death indexes.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Registeringlifeevents/Familyhistoryandresearch/Birthmarriageanddeathcertificates/DG_175676

Regards

Valda

[Guy Etchells]

Do not forget burial registers and grave registers are a good source for burials of still-borns.
Cheers
Guy

[Nick29]

Hi

The stillbirth GRO index (from 1927 onwards) is not public - you have to apply directly to the GRO. A stillbirth would not be registered as a death but as a stillbirth and would not appear in either the public birth birth or death indexes.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Registeringlifeevents/Familyhistoryandresearch/Birthmarriageanddeathcertificates/DG_175676

Regards

Valda

You are correct, Valda, but sometimes one might assume that a death registered an hour or less after a birth would be a still-born, but in some cases it wasn't.  I deliberately avoided trying to trace my mother's first-born child, because I thought it would be tricky finding and getting the documentation, but when I bit the bullet and did some research, I found the birth and death certificate by the normal means, and obtained the documents by the normal means.   The poor child was born during an air raid in WW2, and he could not get to the local hospital because the roads had been bombed, so he was transported about 10 miles across London.   His death certificate put his age at 1 hour and the cause of death was prematurity.

[coombs]

I thought if the baby lived even just a few seconds then it would be counted as a live birth and registered by the normal means. If the baby was born dead then it was a stillborn and those deaths registered in a separate register. I have a friend who said she had a stillborn twin brother. This was in 1954. He would have been recorded in the register of stillbirths.