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Offline MacGrigor

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Registering a birth
« on: Thursday 21 June 18 13:52 BST (UK) »
Hello,

My 2x great-grandmother was born Caroline Emma Kearley. Her birth was registered in 1869. However, she gives her d.o.b. as 1868 on the 1939 register, and her burial gives her age as 88 in 1956. Is it possible her birth was registered a year late? What were the rules for registering a birth?

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Adam
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Re: Registering a birth
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 21 June 18 14:03 BST (UK) »
If the date in the 1939 is during December then her birth would probably have been registered in the following March quarter 1869.  Is this her birth?

KEARLEY, CAROLINE  EMMA     WINCH     
GRO Reference: 1869  M Quarter in UXBRIDGE  Volume 03A  Page 22
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: Registering a birth
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 21 June 18 14:04 BST (UK) »
What are the dates?  In the UK you have 42 days to register a birth so if she was born in late November or December she may not have been registered till the beginning of January and therefore appear in the following years register

Also there are some incorrect dates on the 1939 register, the day is usually right

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« Reply #3 on: Thursday 21 June 18 14:09 BST (UK) »
Under the 1836 Act a birth could be registered up to six months after the birth
XXIII. And be it enacted, That after the Expiration of Six Calendar Months following the Birth of any Child it shall not be lawful for any Registrar to register the Birth of such Child, and no Register of Births, except in the Case of Children born at Sea, shall be given in Evidence to prove the Birth of any Child wherein it shall appear that Six Calendar Months have intervened between the Day of the Birth and the Day of the Registration of the Birth of such Child; and every Person who shall knowingly register or cause to be registered the Birth of any Child after the Expiration of Six Calendar Months following the Day of the Birth of such Child shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence a Sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds.

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Re: Registering a birth
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 21 June 18 14:11 BST (UK) »
The 1939 register said the 3rd of January 1868. But the birth was registered in the same quarter 1869. I presumed the 1939 year was wrong but if she died aged 88 surely she was born in 1868.
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Re: Registering a birth
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 21 June 18 14:19 BST (UK) »
Her burial is from April 1956.
Lipman family of Aldgate - ends with Lewis Lipman (d. 1871, Bethnal Green), son of John Lipman 'late of Glasgow' (1856)
McGregor family of Fodderty - ends with Alexander McGregor (b. 1765, Fodderty), son of Murdoch McGregor and Kate Stewart

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« Reply #6 on: Thursday 21 June 18 14:21 BST (UK) »
There is always the possibility that she couldn't remember which year she was born and put down the wrong year.  Not unknown.
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: Registering a birth
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 21 June 18 14:22 BST (UK) »
Yes, quite possibly.
Lipman family of Aldgate - ends with Lewis Lipman (d. 1871, Bethnal Green), son of John Lipman 'late of Glasgow' (1856)
McGregor family of Fodderty - ends with Alexander McGregor (b. 1765, Fodderty), son of Murdoch McGregor and Kate Stewart

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Re: Registering a birth
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 21 June 18 14:44 BST (UK) »
My paternal grandpa was unsure when he was born.....date, month and year all wrong on 1939 Register. He took some searching to find him!   ::)
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