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Offline dowdstree

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Re: time of birth on Scottish birth cert
« Reply #9 on: Monday 29 January 18 14:37 GMT (UK) »
GR2 that would tally with what I have found in my records.

My earliest one seems to be for 1856.

Agree with you about accuracy of the time.

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Re: time of birth on Scottish birth cert
« Reply #10 on: Monday 29 January 18 18:49 GMT (UK) »
Thanks to all for your comments and clarification. No need to look any further  :)

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Re: time of birth on Scottish birth cert
« Reply #11 on: Monday 29 January 18 21:05 GMT (UK) »
I am told that when I was born, there was doubt about the time - which side of midnight. So 11.59pm was chosen,  and is what was written on my birth certificate. Hence the date was effectively chosen when the time choice was made.

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Re: time of birth on Scottish birth cert
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 30 January 18 17:45 GMT (UK) »
hi ADP,

if I was you I would party on both days to be sure your birthday was celebrated. ;D


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Re: time of birth on Scottish birth cert
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 31 January 18 11:41 GMT (UK) »
I have often wondered how you choose what time a child has been born.
i.e Is it when the baby emerges/is completely born/or when the cord is cut.
I asked a midwife friend who said it's when one of us has time/remembers to glance at the clock depending how easy/fraught the birth has been.

Equally time of death recorded is when the doctor pronounces life extinct I assume.
My dear old dad died last year, the family had spent six days by his side and I feel honoured that it was on my watch. I looked at the clock just after and remember noting the time but obviously it was a good half hour documented on his certificate.

I hadn't realised until recently that this was commonplace nationwide. We were celebrating a friends 60th birthday and I asked him what time of day he was born and he had no idea, his Mum was no longer alive and his Dad couldn't remember.