Number of children?

[crystalight]

Can anyone tell me how (if it is possible) to account for ALL children born to the same parents.    also if a partner remarries is their anyway of accounting for all the children produced from one parent? 
I only know of census information which allows infant deaths to slip through without being recorded.

Any help much appreciated
Crystal 

[suzard]

Baptism records are a good source, burial/cemetery records are another.

Suz

[aghadowey]

Very difficult to know when you might have 'all' the children. Often children weren't baptised and earlier stillbirths (as well as living ones) weren't recorded. Even when you are told a number of children in a family it can be extremely difficult to find all the children.

[crystalight]

Thank you Suz

So it really is only parish records, that's what I thought,  think I really will have to do the trip to Cheshire.

Crystal 

Thanks also aghadowey your reply came while I was typing,
I also have a couple of "extra's" that someone else has passed on to me but I can find no record. Best wishes Crystal 

[mshrmh]

crystalight - I understand that the 1911 census asked for the number of children in the present marriage and the split between those living and those dead.
I agree prior to 1910 when there is no maiden name on the indices for England & Wales it is particularly difficult to be sure that you have traced all siblings. The census helps for those alive on those dates, but I have instances where children were at another relative's home on their first census and then working & living away by their second, so are difficult to identify without other knowledge or sources. 1911 may create a few more mysteries for us all when released (?1909?).

[crystalight]

  Yes I am sure it will reveal many more mysteries and confusion 
for us all mshrmh

Crystal