Still born child

[trish58]

You need to download the form, fill it in with parents names, my Mum is still alive so I got it on her behalf, but had she been deceased as is my Dad then I could still apply for it as a sibling, but I would the need to send the death certificates of both parents. Plus the year etc.

My siblings and I also knew about "Winifred Ann" who was stillborn and though she wasn't baptized my parents did give her a name, I also have the receipt for her burial which cost 12 shillings & 6 pence. I know she will be buried with others but I am looking to find the exact burial spot, she is buried in Heaton cemetery Bolton, I am in Oz, so taking a little time.

Good luck

Trish

[kathleendaley60]

my grand mother had a still born she told my mother a lot of still born went in with some who had just die

[kathleendaley60]

Very interesting thread. During a recent seach I have found my great grandmother had a set of twins that I had never heard of and on looking for a death certificate both show up as being aged 0. This was in 1926- so would they have been stillborn then if they show on a death certificate or would I need to obtain the death certificate to show this?

.......my grandmother had twins one still born no death cert... other one live 6 moths have death cert   age 0 he die before he reach 1 that was 1915 so i cant find any info on the still born

[coombs]

In parish registers I have seen notices of still born children in burials such as "a stillborn son of Joe Bloggs and Mary his wife".

As said cemeteries are a good place to find details on stillborns, and newspaper archives to see if there was an obituary.

[Selina]

Thank you Guy for clarifying the procedure for me.

Best wishes,

Selina

[diddy5]

I had stillborn twins, in Wales, in 1991 and had to register a birth and a death for them.

[Selina]

This is a very sad thread and my heartfelt sympathy goes to all that have experienced these births.

Hopefully it may help others to answer some questions which are often ones that people have a deeply felt need to resolve.

Selina

[coombs]

In the 1911 census sometimes failure to find a missing birth or births if for example you have an ancestor who had 8 children, and 3 died but you can only find deaths for two, then the other one may have been a still birth.

[Valda]

Hi

The 'fertility questions' asked on the 1911 census were

'In the 1911 census women were asked to state the ‘years the present marriage has lasted’, the number of children born alive to the present marriage (not just those who were living in the house) and how many had died.'

so again ignoring the existence of stillbirths and of course miscarriages.
Whoever filled in the household schdeule may of course have interpreted the question differently to how it was stated.

Regards

Valda