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Tenerife Sun

Tenerife Sun Report 12 Dec 2009 17:50

If someone was born at sea do they take their nationalit from their father? I think I heard somewhere that it was from where the ship was registered.

Wendy

Researching:
Matthew and Jane Elwood who had my great great grandfather Francis Edward Elwood baptised in 1807 at Horsham Sussex. There is no sign of Matthew or Jane from this date and my great great grandfather was brought up as Francis Edward Elwood MITCHELL

Annina

Annina Report 12 Dec 2009 18:14

Don't know about a ship,but if born on an aeroplane flight,the nationality is of the country that they are over at the time,I don't know what happens if it is over the sea at the time.

Interesting one that.

RutlandBelle

RutlandBelle Report 12 Dec 2009 18:37

if you put 'born at sea' into google lots of info comes up. Too much to copy and paste here.

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Tenerife Sun

Tenerife Sun Report 12 Dec 2009 22:44

thank you both, will now look at Google

Wendy

Researching:
Matthew and Jane Elwood who had my great great grandfather Francis Edward Elwood baptised in 1807 at Horsham Sussex. There is no sign of Matthew or Jane from this date and my great great grandfather was brought up as Francis Edward Elwood MITCHELL

mgnv

mgnv Report 13 Dec 2009 07:57

Depends on the nationality we're talking about.

If the father were British, then the kid could claim British nationality if they claimed as a minor (i.e., before they were 21). This applied for any birth outside the UK, not just at sea.