Still born child

[Nick29]

Whoever filled in the household schdeule may of course have interpreted the question differently to how it was stated.

Yes, that's true, Valda, but the point I was trying to make was that any perceived barriers to accessing the information may be of our own making 

I delayed the research of my mother's first-born child, because I'd read that it could be difficult to access the records, and even then I might not be able to get copies of certificates.  In the end, when I did try, I was able to get the certificates as easily as all the other certificates that I'd bought.  Much more poignant though.

[Valda]

Hi Nick


In my last post I was clarifying only the point Coombs made in the previous post about the specific 'fertility' question on the 1911 census and was not refering to anything else previously stated on this topic.

Pre 1927 as Coombs has pointed out the major source for information on stillbirths is parish and cemetery burial records, particularly cemetery records as the parish registers may or may not include them - up to the particular individual church officials concerned, though they would of course always be included in more recent church registers.


Regards

Valda