unusual Birth Registration

[moonraker 1937]

Please has anyone an explanation to the following.

     I am helping someone on their search, and we have come across this following:-

     Her Grandfather was born Q1 1915, (100% definite), but his birth registered q4 1928 on authority of Registrar General ( that is when it is listed in birth index's).

   Anyone with logical explanation, please

 David

[Necromancer]

have you checked 1 & 2Q 1915 to see if an entry exists in the index with a note saying see D28* ?

Corrections were done in this way - maybe his birth originally didnt show a father or similar ?

To change it all that time later would need the sign-off of the senior Registrar ....



*D28 - meaning Dec 1928 (4Q)

[moonraker 1937]

Yes on bottom of Q1 1915 page there is pen entery  quoting name and see D28 ( or Q4 28).
   Father and Mother both on birth cert.

 David

[Necromancer]

Father and mother both on cert

- well on the 1928 I'd guess, you cant get the original one ordered from the Index, cos it refers to the later one.


Dunno then, if both index entries are the exact expected name .....   

[moonraker 1937]

 
    Thanks for your help.

 David

[Mean_genie]

It's hard to be certain without seeing the actual entry, but it sounds like a late registration. Although it was very unusual for a birth to fail to be registered as late as 1915, it could happen (and still does). After such a long time the authority of the RG is needed, the local Superintendent Registrar doesn't have the authority.

A fairly high standard of doucementary evidence would be demanded - affidavits from parents, certified copies of baptismal entries etc. The longest gap I have seen is of a woman who was born in the 1880s and finally had her birth registered when she was about 52!

Mean_genie

[glenclare]

I have the same situation, on a tree I am working on but luckily I know the circumstances.

In this case the children were registered by the mother. When she married the childrens father several years later, a new registration was put in for that year as well and a note was put on the original registrations. I believe it is usually done to add the fathers name to the certificate.

[Necromancer]

Thats what I understood to be the case.

 

[moonraker 1937]

Thank you all for your time. I believe it must of been a late registration, as from info I have been given parents definetely married prior to birth. (unless there was any Hanky panky not known)

David