Aussie Request For Advice

q98 · Post by **q98** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:16 am

On the Birth Extract of a great-great-aunt is a hand-written annotation which I believe reads "Dec of Paternity See Regr of Cor: Entries Vol 1 p 4 11 Novr 1862".

QUESTIONS:

1. Am I correct in assuming it means "Declaration of Paternity, see Register of Corrections, Entry Volume 1 Page 4 of 11 November 1862"?

2. As her Birth Extract shows her to be illegitimate, why would her mother, if my assumption is correct, make a declaration of paternity three years after her birth?

3. Can any reader assist with the data contained in the Register of Corrections?

Regards and many thanks.

Jim McCreadie
Fremantle
Western Australia

P.S. The temperatures here for Christmas and Boxing Days were 42 degrees and 44.5 degrees respectively - PHEW!

Post by **SarahND** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:09 am

Hi Jim,
Sounds like you have interpreted the abbreviations correctly. Have you looked at the RCE to see what it says? If you accessed the birth record on Scotland's People, there should be a link to the RCE, which you can look at for another 2 credits. If you don't know who the father was, this is a good way to find out!

If I understand correctly, once the paternity had been decided legally, the father had to pay a certain amount of child support while the child was young-- so a very good reason to push the thing through!

Keep cool! There is frost all over the ground this morning in southern France.
Sarah

q98 · Post by **q98** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:46 am

Hi SarahND
Ah frost! I vaguely recall that phenomenon from my childhood in Ayrshire.

Do you know if I have to view again the Birth Extract to view the RCE? I should like to know who was the nominated father.

Jim

Post by **SarahND** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:57 am

jim mccreadie wrote: Do you know if I have to view again the Birth Extract to view the RCE? I should like to know who was the nominated father.

I think you do. If you already downloaded it from SP it should be in your viewed images and won't cost you anything (except the additional 2 credits for the RCE). If you got the certificate otherwise, then... you may have to pay to see it again

But maybe someone will come along and say I am wrong

Regards,
Sarah

Grendlsmother · Post by **Grendlsmother** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:01 pm

Sarah is right. When you go into the previously viewed image, at the top of the page there is a tab for "View RCE".

You may well get a certificate from some sort of a magistrate - I have had two instances of this, once six months after the birth and one a couple of years after. Maybe if the father "went absent" it took time to track him down!

q98 · Post by **q98** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:10 pm

Thank you ladies. It is a correctly obtained document. It may have to wait a wee while though - bank account has taken a battering with Xmas, Hogmany, my wife's birthday also on New Years Day and my twin daughters birthday two days later (3rd Jan).

I kept my own birthday until September so I'd have some money for my own birthday present

Tks agn.

Jim

Post by **SarahND** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:03 pm

jim mccreadie wrote:It may have to wait a wee while though - bank account has taken a battering with Xmas, Hogmany, my wife's birthday also on New Years Day and my twin daughters birthday two days later (3rd Jan).

No wonder you're a bit short on cash! I hope you don't have to wait until Sept for your SP credits! Too bad you can't just buy two... Coincidentally, I have just two left-- but since I don't have your original image in my account, I'd have to pay the full six + two to get it for you

Otherwise, I'd gladly donate them to the cause!
Happy New Year

Sarah

Post by **Tracey** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:29 pm

My gt gt grandmother waited six years to have my gt grandmothers father made "official" via a paternity case. I dont think there is any doubt that he looked after them financially before but i do think the paternity was bought about because the father was ill and died about a year after, and he happened to be a quite well off famer / land owner. As it turned out he didnt leave a Will, the only one in a long line not to, and the land / farm was passed to his eldest legitimate son verbally - i assume - and my lot got nout !.

Post by **paddyscar** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:51 am

jim mccreadie wrote:I kept my own birthday until September so I'd have some money for my own birthday present

Good planning on your part, Jim!

Frances

q98 · Post by **q98** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:25 am