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Birth registered 'by proxy' 18 months late?
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Janet | Report | 14 Jul 2006 15:08 |
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Birth certificate shows that birth was registered 'by proxy' when the baby was 18 months old. The registration was done by the father and correctly names both parents. Is there likely to be another (earlier) birth certificate? The person thinks they were fostered at birth with a view to adoption but the adoption never happenned. Thanks for any help. |
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Merry | Report | 14 Jul 2006 15:09 |
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Can you not just have a look and see? Or am I being thick? Merry |
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Thelma | Report | 14 Jul 2006 16:17 |
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Janet Look for yourself FREE http://www.ancestry.*co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx (remove * ) |
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Janet | Report | 24 Jul 2006 06:49 |
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Thanks for replies. The problem is she thinks the first registration (if any) would have been under a different name and she doesn't know what name as she was 'given away' at birth. If any of you experts on adoption agree that there would have been an earlier birth cert. then we'll do a thorough search. This is a 'reversed' adoption search. She knows her birth parents but wants to find her adoptive ones! Thanks again |
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Unknown | Report | 24 Jul 2006 07:32 |
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I think you should contact the register office where the 'by proxy' birth cert was issued and ask them exactly what 'by proxy' means. I didn't think it was possible to register a birth twice - the registrar would want to know why this birth was registered so late - fostered babies would have been registered under their birth name. How does this person know that this birth cert has her birth parents on it? nell |
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Merry | Report | 24 Jul 2006 10:05 |
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What years were these events? If a baby was fostered out at birth with a view to adoption, the original birth cert should still have the birth mother on it, be she married to the father or not. (so I would take a look at the birth indexes for the correct time-frame under the maiden name of the mum named on the proxy cert, even if only to eliminate this) There are occassions where a woman who is not the birth mother might register a child as their own (sometimes a young grandmother), but surely this wouldn't be the case where a formal adoption was supposed to be the final outcome........ Merry |
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Unknown | Report | 24 Jul 2006 10:20 |
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I'm wondering, since the father registered the birth, whether the baby was illegitimate and father later married mum, and was able to register baby with himself named as father on cert. |
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Mog | Report | 24 Jul 2006 11:27 |
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My eldest sister was born in 1939, a year before my parents were married. She appears on the indexes twice, the first time under my mother's maiden name and the second, after my parents marriage, with Dad's surname and the comment 'on the authority of the Registrar General'. Mog |
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