ommission of mothers name

[Jebber]

As Marmalady said, with six weeks in which to register a birth, it is perfectly feasible for the mother to be the informant.

I have just done count of the birth certificates for one side of my family, out of 50  certificates, on  28 of them the mother was the informant, so more than 50 percent.

Jebber

[carol8353]

You have 6 weeks to register a birth -- so Mothers would have been perfectly capable of registering many births - they were out & about with the baby much earlier than the end of the 6 weeks period.

I was born at 5pm on a Sunday,my dad was waiting outside the register office as it opened on Monday morning at 9am to register my birth 

Carol

[lizdb]

Gosh, poor Rodc has got 5 pages of 37 posts to wade through when he does come back online!  I think he might be the one who ends up confused!

Hopefully he can focus us on the matter in hand - if he can give a name for the child in question and the parents we will then know if the people Maureen found are relevant or not.

And if, as has been asked, he can confirm exactly what this document he refers to is, preferably with a scan of the small section where the mothers name is missing.

Till then, I for one, am keeping well away!

[pharmaT]

When I registered my first daughter's birth we both went and the registrar said she had to put he dad as informant as Dad took priority. I was too doped up on painkillers at the time to realise how ridiculous she was being.

[iolaus]

As Marmalady said, with six weeks in which to register a birth, it is perfectly feasible for the mother to be the informant.

My great, great grandmother registered my great grandad's birth 7 weeks after his birth, then found out there was a fine, so lied about his date of birth, moving it by a week.  I don't think she told anyone, as he said he was in his late twenties when he found out his birth date was wrong on the certificate.

I presume she registered it as they couldn't afford her husband to take time off to go to the registrar's office (or pay the fine)

[Jebber]

As Marmalady said, with six weeks in which to register a birth, it is perfectly feasible for the mother to be the informant.

My great, great grandmother registered my great grandad's birth 7 weeks after his birth, then found out there was a fine, so lied about his date of birth, moving it by a week.  I don't think she told anyone, as he said he was in his late twenties when he found out his birth date was wrong on the certificate.

I presume she registered it as they couldn't afford her husband to take time off to go to the registrar's office (or pay the fine)

My great grandfather did the same when he registered my grandmother's birth.