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Potty,

Thank you for that info. I have not bought the BC yet but I'll check with the local Register Office before doing so.

It would not surprise me to find that this was the case.

It's always worth double-checking I think.

Thanks again,

Joyce

Potty,

You were right about help. I've had a great deal of help from the Liverpool Registry and that kind person gave me the details to save the cost of buying a copy of the BC. Here they are.

There was no registration for Richard Gorton Guest born 16 July 1839 but there was the following registration.

James Edwin Guest
born 16 July 1839 (no time given)

Place of Birth:
Wright Street [off Scotland Road], Liverpool

Parents:
William Guest & Esther (nee Brooker)

The feeling of the person who gave me the information was that it was unlikely that a child would be baptized twice. Also, I was informed that in 1839 registration of births was not compulsory and it was felt that if there were twins there would be no legal requirement to register both births if one child had already died.

This was pretty much what I expected to hear - no time registered because one child had already died.

That DOB clinches it, doesn't it? At that time the responsibility for registering births lay with the Registrar and not the parents so very possible that if the child had died when the Registrar called, it would not have been registered.

As to being baptised twice, not usual but not impossible - I was baptised twice. The first time in the hospital where I was born (during WW2 and in an area that was regularly bombed) and later in our Parish church. Also, I was helping somebody on another thread a week or two ago, and found a child that appeared to have been baptised twice - all the details were the same, including the vicar, but two baptisms a few months apart.

As you are researching Liverpool area, are you aware of this site (just found it):

http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/

looks as if it could be very useful.

Thanks, Potty.

I am researching family in Liverpool (Guest, Brooker, Robinson, Welch and Edwards) so I'll look at the site you mention.

Many thanks, too, for the information about the Registrar's responsibilities as I did not know that.

It's true - you learn something every day.