Genealogy Chat

If a child took breath... I thought it was/is a must that they are registered....but who knows!

johnathan searched 12mths after Raymond was born for a death of female coventry age 0yrs, nothing! i think maybe it was another brother of Raymonds that had the twin.....MOE!

I have found a whitehead/virgin birth in the last quarter 1922....but its a boy named IVOR and in Gloucester 6a-496. If the baby was ill do you think he/she might have been sent there? A long shot but hey! Gerri x

Oh stupid me!!!!! they couldnt have been twins then could they? or could they? maybe the birth was registered the same time as the death? will have to look see if there a death.....

Thanks all, the Gloucester one sounds worthy of follow up, will have a think later.

Thanks again all, the Whitehead/Virgin combination must be pretty rare and sounds like it must be family, though not sure what they were doing in Gloucester, the certificate might tell me more. Did anyone find a death for an Ivor after this record? My nan and her older brother were I think born in Saddleworth and hadn't realised Ray was born in Coventry where they were brought up. I will have something to tell my dad now thanks to you, Jon and Suzie.

Don't know if it applied back then but if there's more than one birth eg twins, triplets etc the time of birth is given on the birth cert. So if you have the birth cert of the one you know about and it has a time of birth then there was definatly another baby born at the same time.

Not sure, might be worth finding out. I just spoke to my dad, he was thrilled that people had kindly replied to me. He told me that my uncle has spoken to my Great Uncle Ray who lives in Australia and he seems to think he had a twin sister. The Ivor is very interesting though, but he can't think how he fits in.

Thanks all for yesterday, thinking that maybe she wasn't registered or that my great uncle misremembers what he was told.