birth records

[kclinch]

Family lore tells of Irish immigrants giving birth to son while on immigrant ship to New York in 1852/53. If this were to have happened, was there a standard practice of recording the birth? If so, where?

[*Sandra*]

Any record made of a birth or death at sea from 1837 onwards was sent directly to the General Register Office and recorded in the Marine Register.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/birth-marriage-death-sea-or-abroad/

Sandra

[aghadowey]

Any record made of a birth or death at sea from 1837 onwards was sent directly to the General Register Office and recorded in the Marine Register.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/birth-marriage-death-sea-or-abroad/

Sandra

I believe that would only apply for a birth on a British registered ship.

Have you checked to see if the birth was recorded in New York records? and checked the passenger list? My grandmother's uncle was supposed to have been born on the voyage to America but was actually born in Germany and appears as an infant on the manifest.

[Lisa in California]

If you would like to share the parents names, ages, etc. we could have a look for you (on passenger lists).

I believe I've seen one or two passenger lists that show "at sea" or something similar (for births). 

Update:  I believe I've also seen a death record that has something similar to
place of birth: off coast of Nova Scotia

[kclinch]

Immigrant couple: John Clinch and wife Ellen. Son: John. Surname for John senior is Linch in 1860 Illinois census, Clynch in 1870 Iowa census, and Clinch on Ellen's (Ellenor) gravestone.
Help is appreciated. John (junior) birth is shown on some records as 12 April, 1852, but I have seen 1853 as well.

[Lisa in California]

Immigrant couple: John Clinch and wife Ellen. Son: John. Surname for John senior is Linch in 1860 Illinois census, Clynch in 1870 Iowa census, and Clinch on Ellen's (Ellenor) gravestone.
Help is appreciated. John (junior) birth is shown on some records as 12 April, 1852, but I have seen 1853 as well.

I'm having difficulty finding John and Ellen(or) on U.S. census returns.    Would you know their years of birth, please, and in which towns they lived in 1860 and 1870?

[aghadowey]

1870 census?
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDVW-V78

1860 census?
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXHM-FNR