No birth certs

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Shortfuse
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No birth certs

Post by Shortfuse » Fri Sep 06, 2013 11:50 pm

Two of my relatives died at the tender age of 3 days and 5 days. I can get their death certs on SP, but no sign of their
birth certs. Does this mean that as they only lived a few days that it was not necessary to register the births ? Has anyone
came across this before ?

regards to all sf

AndrewP
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Re: No birth certs

Post by AndrewP » Sat Sep 07, 2013 1:49 am

Hi Shortfuse,

I take it you are talking about 1855 or more recent. If so, then yes, there should be matching birth certificates. So long as a birth is of a live child, then a birth and death certificate should exist.

In my family tree research, I have a number of births and deaths, where life was only for a few days; five of them where the lifespan was hours rather than days; and one at 30 minutes.

All the best,

AndrewP

Shortfuse
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Re: No birth certs

Post by Shortfuse » Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:33 am

Hi Andrew
Many thanks for the reply. Yes its post 1855, forgot to put that in and as usual I got it all wrong and put Jeannie into
the search box ( as per death cert ) and got no hits. When I put Jean in I got the information

many thanks again sf