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Essex / death registration for a baby who didn't die (1900)
« on: Friday 09 September 16 22:36 BST (UK) »
Does anyone know of a reason why a baby would have been registered as deceased when she wasn't?
We have a birth in 1900 naming her as `female' and then a death naming her as `female'. She was born 9 months, 11 days after her sister. She was raised in a foundling home and the mother put on the 1911 census that she had a child who had died. The only child unaccounted for is the one in the foundling home. The father wasn't in the home in 1911 (two residences), but he's the one who signed the census.
Does anyone know why/how this would have happened? Maybe she was born prematurely, assumed she would die, taken away and when she survived, not returned to her parents???
The registration is in Croydon, Essex. Thank you!
We have a birth in 1900 naming her as `female' and then a death naming her as `female'. She was born 9 months, 11 days after her sister. She was raised in a foundling home and the mother put on the 1911 census that she had a child who had died. The only child unaccounted for is the one in the foundling home. The father wasn't in the home in 1911 (two residences), but he's the one who signed the census.
Does anyone know why/how this would have happened? Maybe she was born prematurely, assumed she would die, taken away and when she survived, not returned to her parents???
The registration is in Croydon, Essex. Thank you!