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*****me*****

*****me***** Report 31 Mar 2006 18:59

become compulsery to register a birth? chris

Pippa

Pippa Report 31 Mar 2006 19:02

1875

*****me*****

*****me***** Report 31 Mar 2006 19:04

so i don't suppose i would find one for 1811 or 1833?

Glen In Tinsel Knickers

Glen In Tinsel Knickers Report 31 Mar 2006 19:07

If it's certs you want,then they are pre civil registration(post 1837 you get certs). To research pre 1837,it involves looking at Parish Registers and baptisms. Glen

Pippa

Pippa Report 31 Mar 2006 19:08

civil registration didn't start until july 1837 (septmber quarter) before then it is seeing if you can find the baptism in the parish register. Births should have been registitered from sept 1837 however it became compulsory in 1875.

Merry

Merry Report 31 Mar 2006 19:10

From 1837 to 1875 is had been estimated that between 6 and 10% of births were not registered. The percentage is higher amongst poor families and unmarried mothers. Merry

*****me*****

*****me***** Report 31 Mar 2006 19:23

thanks for your replys-----what if they were'nt baptised? was that compulsery?

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 31 Mar 2006 19:25

This has just reminded me to look out the threads with lists of useful dates and get the dates+info copied into my ''general information'' folder! Christine

LindaG

LindaG Report 31 Mar 2006 19:34

Baptism was not compulsory. In some families the child was baptised immediately, sometimes the children were done in a batch (I have 5 from one family on Christmas Day 1875!), sometimes it didn't happen at all... You can only guess at birth years from baptism records. Often I end up taking an average from ages at censuses (seeing as they are rarely consistent!) The only ages I trust on records (apart from birth certificates) are those given whena child is very young at census time. Thos aged 5 and under at census seem more likely to be accurate (but don't count on it!) Lx

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 31 Mar 2006 22:34

Chris Although Baptism wasn't compulsory, for the dates you are talking about, it is very likely that they WERE baptised. Life was made very difficult for those who werent baptised - you couldnt get a legal place of Settlement for a start. Some die-hard non-conformists (which of course includes Catholics, Jews, Quakers as well as Methodists etc) werent baptised in the Established Church, but a note of their birth may have been made in the Registers of their particular religion. Its pot luck, but start with the IGI. Olde Crone

*****me*****

*****me***** Report 31 Mar 2006 22:47

thanks olde crone, i'll do that.