Registering of Births in the 1960's

[KathyM]

Just a little addition to this.....I seem to remember that in the 1960/70s most babies (particularly first ones) were born in hospital or maternity homes.  New Mums generally stayed there for the first ten days !!! - I can remember the registrar coming to thew hospital a couple of times a week and new Mums went into an office there and registered the birth.  It is likely that the first birth cert. was registered under your mother's maiden name if she wasn't married.