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Hi,
Just a quick question, would still births be registered in 1909, if so would there also be a death certificate?

Stillbirth registration began on 1 July 1927, so no it would not have been registered. If it took a breath, there should be a death cert.

However there are some births of stillborn babies that were registered in the normal birth registers because parents knew there were penalties for non registration but didn't understand the intricacies.

I am fast coming to the conclusion that this is what happened to my grandfathers sister.

Thankyou for your help.

The problem i have is via 2 seperate family members i have been told my grgrand lost twins about 1909.

I was given possible names and have located on the birth register possible candidates, but while checking the 1911 census i have found two more children who died in 1901 and 1903.

The columns that list children born was 11, 9 still alive and 2 dead so i'm starting to wonder if the story about the twins was incorrect.

I think that the column in 1911 asks about live births.
If the twins were stillborn, they wouldn't have been included in that record, but their loss may still have been remembered within the family and that information could have been handed down through the generations.

Gwyn

Family stories tend to get twisted a bit. Maybe the two deaths that you found, in 1901 & 1903, have become two "twins" in family legend? My mum always thought that her mum's eldest sister died "at birth" - however I have since proved that she lived until nearly 2 years old - and she wasn't the eldest either, she was the 2nd child.

Thanks for all your help.

Brian