How was a stillbirth registered 1936?

[mum mum]

Hi
I think I will contact the cemetery and see if they have any record of babies graves, I have a couple of other unmarked family graves in the cemetery, we may have to spend some time there with Mum and my Aunt, maybe have the names recorded there somewhere.
mum mum

[Billyblue]

Stillborns were / ?are often buried in a grave of whoever was being buried that day - not necessarily any connection to the family.

Dawn M

[mabeljessie]

Hi MM,
I always knew that my grandmother had a stillbirth as her first child, she always saw it as a great tragedy that in the 1920's it could not be given a proper burial.  I was delighted to find when searching my tree that the baby was listed on the cemetery records. The details are sketchy, no sex of the child is given and the burial place is in the public area, it does however give a service date which indicates a date of birth and death for this child.

I felt I had honoured my grandmother and her child when I entered them in the tree, and given them the respect that was denied them by the authorities at the time. To loose a child would be terrible but to have its existence denied for the sake of a breath would be crushing to a mother.

If you know where the child was born it might well be worth looking at the cemetery records. If it is a major cemetery they may be online, like was the case with my records.

Good luck
mabeljessie

[mum mum]

Thanks,
We do know the cemetery, they are not on line but a local lady has kept the old records and I know would be very helpful in trying to locate where they are, if possible. I am told that my Aunt who is visiting Mum this week was interested in having the names put on the babies board at the cemetery.. Just have to find the time to get up to Mum's to see them this week.
mum mum

[HBelle]

My mother's first baby girl was stillborn  c1930, in Sydney.   It wasn't registered - she told me about it.  Her second baby boy lived just one day, born 1933.  His birth was registered, and he was named and a small brown burial card was found in her belongings after she died. 
I was her third child and I survived!  When I was giving her details for registration after her death, I was told that stillborn babies were not recorded on the mother's death registration, but the day-old baby was.  Fortunately, because of what my mother told me, I was able to include the still born daughter on my data base.
HBelle