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aghadowey
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Very hard to answer your question without knowing what country the events took place.
If stillbirths did not come under civil registration it's possible that the burying ground might have kept a record of interment.
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Mean_genie
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Stillbirths have registered in England and Wales following the 1926 Act, but neither the indexes nor the entries themselves are available to the general public. the only people who can have access to registrations of stilbirths are parents or siblings of the stillborn child.
So if the childen were stillborn the only record you will have any chance of finding is a burial. If one or both of them lived for evena few minutes, then there should be both a birth and a corresponding death registration for that child. The operative word of course is 'should'! Not everyone understands and/or follows the rules, and a child might be referred to within the family as stillborn when technically there was a birth and a death - from the point of view of their loss why should they care about the small print after all? I doubt if I would.
If you are trying to identify possible candidates in the birth and death indexes for the poor little mites, the birth entries (if there are any) will have the mother's maiden surname against them in the index. Even if both surnames are common the search is feasible, if tedious, especially since you know the area. If you find any that look as though they belong to the family, check for corresponding deaths aged 0 in the same quarter and district.
Simple, eh?
Good luck with it anyway
Mean_genie
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