Genealogy Chat

I am disappointed that I still do not know exactly where my mother and her siblings were born.. There were no addresses on the certificates. It never occured to ask my mother where she was born. Sheila

No address Sheila, mine all have the address of a birth on them?

What years are you talking about? I have never had a birth certificate that doesn't give an address, apart from very early ones that sometimes just give the village name as an address. Kath. x

oh what a shame i know what you mean abot never asking we are trying to get my husbands grandads army papers if we looked in to it when his nan was alive it would have been free but now it will cost 30 pound

Kath, I have one for 1847 the rest are early 1900's.All for the same town. Sheila

Sheila Are you sure you have their full certs, and not the short version? I think it is very unusual for a relatively modern cert not to have an address on it. OC

I agree with OC. I'm sure there should be addresses if you have the full certificates. Are the ones you have, ones that you have found in your mother's belongings, or are they certificates that you have sent for from the GRO? Kath. x

Are they full birth certificates? If not, the full version may have an address. If the location was a small village and that's why no proper address is given, you may be able to track down school records which show addresses for pupils..... Not necessarily their birthplace though. Gwyn

There is no full address on my mother's birth cert, nor her marriage cert. In both cases, just the name of the village was given. It is a very small village and pre WW2 the two street names there were were not used. Apart from farmhouses or tradesmen's dwellings, like the post office, tailor's shop, none of the houses had names. The village postman (or woman) delivered the mail and the name of the person was sufficient. I do know which cottage (now gone) my grandparent's lived in and I have a family photograph taken in their back garden,with my mother as a baby, so I assume that my mother was born there, but it is only assume. If my mother hadn't come back to live here after her marriage, I would have no idea of wherabouts in the village she had lived or been born. Jay

Janet If I am understanding Sheila's post correctly, there is no address given at all..... I can understand that if someone was born in hamlet of six houses, say, then perhaps only the name of the hamlet would be given - but no address at all? OC

I have three hand written copies for my mother and her two brothers. The copies were made in 1915.1928 and 1947. Would the registrar making the copy omit the address? The name of the town is given. Sheila

I would ring the area registry office, explain what you have and ask if there are any additional details on their records. All my 'town' certs have a full address, it's just my 'country' ones that only give village name. Jay

That certainly doesnt seem right Sheila, all mine have the full address of the birth on them. Give them a ring.

I have two from the 1860s which have just the area in the town but all my later ones have an address on, certainly post 1900. It's certainly worth checking to see if the addresses are available.

Thank you for all your replies. I will try to phone the office which now deals with the town.The original district no longer exists. Sheila

A lot depends on the locality. My mum's birth certificate shows her place of birth as Farnley Moor, Farnley Tyas. That is a good as it gets. Farnley Tyas is a small village near Huddersfield, the Moor, about half a mile from the village itself has about six houses in all, no street names even today. If the cert shows the place of birth as Leeds, with no other information then I would question it.

I have contacted the Registrar to-day. She says that I have the original copies with all the information on them. It is abit disappointing not knowing exactly where my mother was born. Sheila