Genealogy Chat

I did order a birth certificate for a 1961 birth for a child that adopted. There was no small S and just appeared as a normal birth certificate, although no father detailed.

Thanks for your response, Shirley.

edit* I'm awaiting delivery of the birth certificate with interest. The child obviously hasn't died as he has requested his friend for help in finding his parents... I'm expecting the short version, now!

When a child is adopted then if the original birth cert is ordered you only get the short version that doesnt show parent /parents names

The system has changed over their years but at one time a small S was added to the page nos on the GRO ref indicating only a small copy will be issued

edited because my ipad did predictive text that i missed when it posted

No parents names are given on a short birth certificate,

I have wondered the very same, Potty..

I don't know but am curious enough myself to buy the certificate as I'm looking for adopted offspring with the same surname.

Are you sure they were looking at the actual cert and not the GRO index?

I am going to order the certificate and will let you know what I find :-D

That is a good thought Kense..

I have no idea. I came across a message on Ancestry where somebody was looking for the child's mother (now a grown man) only saying that neither father nor mother's first name was given.

Many thanks. I may buy the certificate as it is of interest.

Was the mother the informant who registered the birth? If not, it could be that the informant didn't know her first name.

I do apologise, I didn't make my request clear at all!

It was actually the mother that didn't leave her Christian name..

thank you both, any thoughts still very welcome.

You don't have to give a first name when registering a child - which is why at then end of the list of names you can sometimes find "male" and then surname, or "female" and then surname. The name can be added later which would be added in column 10 (name given after initial registration). This would be on earlier birth certificates. I imagine it would be different today.

See here for details of birth certificates:-

http://www.dixons.clara.co.uk/Certificates/births.htm

Kath. x

The only ones I have seen are for a child that died soon after birth and the birth the birth and death are reg at the same time . The parents didn't name the child

What did happen too was the death was reg but not the birth if the child child was a live birth but died soon after


You have six weeks to reg a birth so would think if the child survived then a name would have been chosen by the time the birth was reg

I read a post on Ancestry where somebody said a mother hadn't left a first name on their child's birth certificate. Was this allowed?








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