Genealogy Chat

wonder if anyone can shed any light on this for me I have my Aunts Birth cert here born 1st Feb 1939 born at the city hospital the signiture of informant and residence it says the following J Binns occupier city hospital nottingham????????? now this is not her mother or father also her birth wasnt registered untill 27th april 1939 and I have found a death that may be hers Betty Webb d jan feb mar 1940. This isnt the only weird mystery either. My Uncle David Webb b 3rd March 1940 at city hospital again same parents tho registered by his mum tho she didnt register him untill 6th June 1940 also found a death that may have been his David Webb jan feb mar 1941. Can anyone explain the above to me please IO would be really gratefull thank you xxx Angie

Hi, you had, and still have six weeks in which to register a death. (but some people didn;t stick to it, or didn't get round to it so maybe they were just late) As for wo registered the birth, it could be anyone with a connection, thats why you sometimes have aunts, uncles, grandparents registering them. Also, sometimes you get completely random people who must have been know in some way. In this case I can only sugest that the hospital had a way of registering the births and a lot of them were done at the same time?!?

Thank u Tom xxxxx I just thought it was weird why neither parent registered the birth. This family is full of secrets and cracking it is a nightmare. Thank u anyway tom xxxxxxxx my imagination works overtimes sometimes I should have been a writer lol

In those days Hospitals had a Lady Almoner whose job it was to arrange home visits,transport , etc etc . It may have been the policy of the hospital at that time for the registrar to call & the Almoner dealt with him for all the births that had occurred since the last visit. so he could register them and pass the certs on. More than likely then cos it was increasingly more common to have your baby in hospital.

think ill have to nip down the register office tom....... and splash out £21 on the 3 death certs to see how come they all died within a year of thier birth. It seems very strange as my Uncle and my cousins (my other Uncle has passed away and he never mentioned these kids to his kids only my dad and a sister Kathleen who died at 2 1/2 yrs and a sister that dissapeared at birth namely Sheila whom im searching for) didnt know any of these kids exsisted!!!!!!!!!! so as ya can see weird or wot, total nightmare and stress case lol. Angie xxxxxxxx

wonder if the war had anything to do with it. the delay in registering and the deaths I mean.