How to find a RE Registered Birth COMPLETE WITH THANKS

[irret]

Hi All,
Recently on Heir Hunters they found a birth entry for someone whos birth had been re registered. I have baptism dates for a member of my family but no registered birth ( after several wrong birth certificates ordered ) So I don't think her birth was ever registered, possibly would she have need to show a birth certificate when she re married in 1930 or for any other event and if she registered her birth where would it be? would it be registered in the year she applied for it or the original birth year of 1867?
Any help most appreciated.

[stanmapstone]

You don't need a birth certificate to get married.
Stan

[irret]

Thanks Stan, well if not for that reason she may have needed it for something else, if so how would it be indexed? the year of her birth or the year she registered it?

[davidft]

Have a look at this tutorial especially columns 8 & 10, it should help

http://www.dixons.clara.co.uk/Certificates/births.htm

[irret]

Thank you, well worth a look, very interesting, just wish she didn't have such a common name.

[jim1]

Birth certs. weren't needed for anything else other than to prove you existed.
The lack of one often points to an illegitimacy which often went unrecorded.
A birth may be registered the following year if the event happened in December & the birth was registered in the 1st. Q of the following year.

[KGarrad]

A couple of points:

It says on a Birth Certificate-
Warning: A Certificate is not evidence of identity


Secondly, maybe the baptism took place a few years after her birth?
So you could be looking for a registration some years earlier?


Finally, it wasn't illegal to not register a birth until 1874!

[irret]

Thanks All,
She may well have been illegitimate as no marriage for parents has been found so no mothers surname found, middle child of several children, all baptised no birth registered, birth consistent on census and father and his occupation consistent. Looks like we shall never find mothers surname.

[stanmapstone]

Finally, it wasn't illegal to not register a birth until 1874!

That is not strictly correct, there was no penalty for not registering a birth until the 1874 Act, by the 1836 Act parents were only legally obliged to inform a registrar of the details of a birth if the registrar demanded them , but if registered after 42 days the person requiring the birth to be registered had to pay the superintendent-registrar 2s. 6d. and the registrar 5s. as both had to be present, so there was a financial incentive to register the birth within 42 days. Reading the other sections of the 1836 Act it seems the intention was for the registration of births and deaths to be compulsory.
See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,635265.msg4827179.html#msg4827179
Stan