Did my sister have a name?

[GillyJ]

I have finally managed to get my stillborn sister's stillbirth certificate. It has touched me immensely as I did not know she existed until my Mum told me in her eighties. She was born on VE day and my Mum was alone while my Dad was away. I found it so sad but now I have her certificate I feel as if she is remembered and included in my family for ever even though she was not named.

[KGarrad]

My mum was always told that her twin sister was to have been called Margaret.
So that's how she appears on my Tree

I'm happy for you, that you finally got her details.

[Rosinish]

Hi GillyJ,

So touching I have to say & good that you were given the info. even at a late stage in your parents lives.

It's so sad though, she wasn't given a name but that wouln't have been upto your parents but rather the "system" at the time.

Nowadays names are included, thankfully.

However, I would check burial as she may have been named there or did your parents say she didn't have a name?

Annie

[trish58]

Such a moving moment when you actually get the certificate and know that it was a real person, I felt just the same when I got my little Sister's, my Mum & Dad named her Winifred Ann though of course not on the certificate.

Winifred Ann has her own birth & death on my family tree just like all my other relations.

So happy you had a lovely outcome.

Trish

[GillyJ]

I think I may have posted on the wrong section here and have no connection to islay - sorry for the confusion and I wish her all the best.

[dawnsh]

Hi Gilly

Thanks for your post.

Islay hasn't been online here since September so won't have seen these later replies but it may give her some hope of an outcome if she hasn't pursued this line of enquiry yet.

Dawn