Death certificate:new born babies.....

djcrtoye · Post by **djcrtoye** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:06 pm

If a baby is stillborn do you need to register the birth, or if the baby dies within hours of being born do need to register a birth and death can any one help with the correct procedure.

Post by **AndrewP** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:32 pm

A stillbirth is entered into the Register of Stillbirths, which is not open to the public. This register was started in 1939.

A live birth where the baby has a very short life, such as only hours or minutes, has a birth and death certificate in the same manner as someone living to a ripe old age.

Use the search button above and do a search on stillbirth to see previous posts on this subject for more information.

All the best,

AndrewP

Post by **emanday** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:49 pm

During my searches I came across both a BC and DC for the same date for a sibling of one of my ancestors. He was only 12 hours old when he died.

I found the DC first and that made me look for the BC

Elizabeth H · Post by **Elizabeth H** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:34 pm

I suppose because of the situation in 1855, I do have one child listed on a death record as stillborn. I think that may have been the only year that happened?
It took me a couple of years to find it on ScotlandsPeople. I had first found this child on the LDS IGI records where the event was recorded as a birth.
It was only after attending a genealogy conference where the lecturer noted that such an event would probably be recorded as a death on SP did I even think to look in that category.
I have a couple other records in later years where a child only lived a couple of hours and birth records and death records were both on SP.

Elizabeth

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:48 pm

Hi Elizabeth H
...and a warm welcome to Talking Scot

Best wishes
Lesley