TWIGG - Wolverhampton

[TWIGG]

hi i have my grt grandfather and his brother on st mary,s baptism register , thy both have numbers for entrys and page numbers, john twigg 1855 on a boat in wolverhampton and james in 1857 but i still carnt get birth record i have sent to the records but carnt fined them
is baptism and birth diffarant record office
kind regards twigg

[cardiff]

HI Twigg
 I am confused..
You have found both brothers baptism records is that on IGI family History site?
Have you search Freebmd for their birth certificate records?
Explain both please so I can help you.
cheers cardiff

[TWIGG]

thy are on the baptism register for st marys i sent to wolverhampton reg office thy sent back my check thy carnt fined the birth records so i carnt get the mothers surname sorry for getting you confused as i am,
regards twqigg

[cardiff]

I understand what you are saying but the baptism record and  the birth records are  different. Births  marriges and deaths are registered on the St Catherines index. pre 1837 all birth where recorded at parish church after 1837 you had to go to the registry office.
so please explain what you sent off and to who?
so I can understand to help you
cheers cardiff

[TWIGG]

i sent to wolverhampton register office for birth cert ,for john and james  also i sent to southport, just carnt fined theregards twiggm, my be the birth was not registed in the reg ,office

[MJP]

Hi twigg,

If I understand your post correctly, you found the two brothers in the baptism registers and then contacted the reg office for the certificates?  As cardiff says, the two are not the same thing.  In order to find the birth certificates, the register office needs a set of reference numbers (the name of the registration district, year and quarter in which the birth was registered, and the volume number and page number where the registration can be found).  They will not do a search for you just using name and year.  

This information can be found in the indexes that cardiff mentions.  One place to search the indexes is www.freebmd.org.uk .  They are transcribing the indexes - they have a huge number of them done, but not all.  You can also search the original images of the index pages for free at www.ancestry.co.uk.  These are not searchable - they are just arranged alphabetically and chronologically so you have to search through each possible year looking for the name.  

Once you have found the index entry and the corresponding reference numbers you can write to the relevant registration office and get them to issue you a certificate.  

Hope this helps you.  You are right that the birth may not have been registered, but hopefully you will find them.

MJP

[TWIGG]

thats kind of you thanks again
twigg

[MJP]

Hi TWIGG,

No problem.  I just noticed that the freebmd address I gave you is wrong.  I have retyped it, but when I post it changes from org.uk to rootsweb.com!!  It should be www [dot] freebmd [dot] org [dot] uk . Hope that works! 

MJP

[TWIGG]

thank you