debsy
11-10-2007, 12:48 AM
I have just been looking through a site posted by Pam
http://www.dixons.clara.co.uk/Certificates/births.htm#HEAD
The following I've copied about birth registrations (I assume this is not illegal since I have named the site):
The place of birth is not terribly helpful in the early registrations. The description is likely to be just the village name although "posh" people with big houses sometimes got their house names even on the early registrations. By 1860 more of the address was commonly in use eg High Street Chalvey and you might get even more given. By about 1880 reasonably full addresses were in use.
You need to look at the place of birth against the informant and address in Column 7. If mother has registered and the names given in Column 2 , and 7 are identical you have probably got mothers address at the time of the birth. Ditto for father.....In early registrations the mother has probably not travelled far from home to give birth, but even so may have come from several parishes away. In later dates mothers often travelled very long distances from home especially when the baby was going to be adopted and the pregnancy hidden from the rest of the family/village.
I purchased the birth certificate of my gg grandfather from 1849.
No. - 254
Column 1 - Twentieth January 1849 4 Chalton Street Somers Town
Column 2 - Frederick James
Column 3 - Boy
Column 4 - Blank (line drawn through)
Column 5 - Sarah Elizabeth Wood
Column 6 - Blank (line drawn through)
Column 7 - S. E. Wood Mother 4 Chalton Street Somers Town
Column 8 - Fifth February 1849
Column 9 - William Henry Matthews Registrar
The Registration District was St Pancras in the sub-district of Somers Town in the county of Middlesex.
Am I fortunate to have these details then? It seems that Sarah kept her child even though he was fatherless (as he was registered by her). Sarah was not at the above address in the 1851 census. This is currently a brickwall for me as I have no idea of knowing whether Sarah was previously married or if Wood was her maiden name. I don't know where she was born and Wood is such a common name. I can't find either of them in the 1851/61 census. When Frederick was married in 1870 it said deceased for father (no name given) so there was possibly no stepfather either. I have not been able to find a marriage after 1849 for Sarah that I could say was her but I am still investigating this. I am also yet to try and find a baptism but not sure how to go about that. Perhaps Sarah died before the 1851 census.
So many possibilities!
http://www.dixons.clara.co.uk/Certificates/births.htm#HEAD
The following I've copied about birth registrations (I assume this is not illegal since I have named the site):
The place of birth is not terribly helpful in the early registrations. The description is likely to be just the village name although "posh" people with big houses sometimes got their house names even on the early registrations. By 1860 more of the address was commonly in use eg High Street Chalvey and you might get even more given. By about 1880 reasonably full addresses were in use.
You need to look at the place of birth against the informant and address in Column 7. If mother has registered and the names given in Column 2 , and 7 are identical you have probably got mothers address at the time of the birth. Ditto for father.....In early registrations the mother has probably not travelled far from home to give birth, but even so may have come from several parishes away. In later dates mothers often travelled very long distances from home especially when the baby was going to be adopted and the pregnancy hidden from the rest of the family/village.
I purchased the birth certificate of my gg grandfather from 1849.
No. - 254
Column 1 - Twentieth January 1849 4 Chalton Street Somers Town
Column 2 - Frederick James
Column 3 - Boy
Column 4 - Blank (line drawn through)
Column 5 - Sarah Elizabeth Wood
Column 6 - Blank (line drawn through)
Column 7 - S. E. Wood Mother 4 Chalton Street Somers Town
Column 8 - Fifth February 1849
Column 9 - William Henry Matthews Registrar
The Registration District was St Pancras in the sub-district of Somers Town in the county of Middlesex.
Am I fortunate to have these details then? It seems that Sarah kept her child even though he was fatherless (as he was registered by her). Sarah was not at the above address in the 1851 census. This is currently a brickwall for me as I have no idea of knowing whether Sarah was previously married or if Wood was her maiden name. I don't know where she was born and Wood is such a common name. I can't find either of them in the 1851/61 census. When Frederick was married in 1870 it said deceased for father (no name given) so there was possibly no stepfather either. I have not been able to find a marriage after 1849 for Sarah that I could say was her but I am still investigating this. I am also yet to try and find a baptism but not sure how to go about that. Perhaps Sarah died before the 1851 census.
So many possibilities!