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Kath | Report | 31 Dec 2006 04:50 |
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Can anyone tell me what this means on a birth it says sex U ? |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 31 Dec 2006 05:02 |
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Is this on an actual certificate? Gwyn |
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Kath | Report | 31 Dec 2006 05:04 |
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Yes it states the sex of child as U |
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Richard in Perth | Report | 31 Dec 2006 05:30 |
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Presumably it stands for ''Unknown''. What was the given name of the child, and what year was this? |
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Kath | Report | 31 Dec 2006 05:43 |
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hi it's in the OPR'S William Roche 1816 . I have got the actual Birth cert . |
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Kath | Report | 31 Dec 2006 05:46 |
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I cannot find a death for William from 1855 onwards so possibly could have been born deformed and died after birth . Just a guess |
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Richard in Perth | Report | 31 Dec 2006 06:02 |
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You can't possibly have a birth cert if it was 1816 - they didn't start until 1837 (at least not in Eng/Wales). Presumably therefore it's a transcription from the baptism register. Usually these specify ''son of...'' or ''daughter of...'', thereby denoting the sex of a child. However, if this is omitted (as it sometimes is), then a concientious transcriber would put sex as unknown rather than guess the sex based on the child's name. Sure in this case it's a fairly safe bet that William was a boy, but that's not always the case (e.g. a child named Alex could be either a boy or a girl). I think that in this case, you can take the U to mean that the child's sex was not explicitly stated in the register. Richard |
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Kath | Report | 31 Dec 2006 07:34 |
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Thankyou yes it is a transcription. Thankyou for expalinin what the U meant |
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