Birth registration mandatory in 1904?

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Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 126 Send Message	Andrew	Report	19 Mar 2005 23:44
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 126 Send Message	I suspect births had to be registered by law around 1904. Has anyone found cases where there is no birth record for someone in their tree born around the same time? Regards, Andy
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 6,440 Send Message	An Olde Crone	Report	19 Mar 2005 23:48
	Andrew Yes, it was mandatory but you know what they say, Laws are made to be broken!! I have found lots of 'missing' BMDs by going to the Local Register Office, rather than the GRO. I read somewhere that something like 4% of events never reached the GRO - in my case/area it seems more like 40%~! Marjorie
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 1,270 Send Message	Jan	Report	20 Mar 2005 00:18
	Andy, I'd been searching 6 months for the death record of my grandad - where I thought it should have been - only to find it wasn't and everywhere I looked, FREEbmd, 1837, Ancestry, you name it, no sign of it. I finally went to the Local Council Offices where they keep burial records (because I knew the cemetery and the plot number) and they told me exactly where he died and when. A different area to where I had thought. I contacted that council and sure enough they had the record. Obviously it hadn't been transcribed yet, for some reason, and there are probably lots more like that. Frustrating isn't it. Jan :-))