Maiden names

[danieloftyne]

Can anyone help I have looked up a birth record for one of my family and there is no mum's name on it and no maiden name either is this usual I mean obviously there is a mum just no name for her

[J.R.Ellam]

Hi

Yes usually means the child was born to a single woman but she might be see have had the same surname as her husband and she was mistaken as single by the registrar.

John

[chempat]

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01nu4/

Which country?

[bbart]

Just to clarify, when you say you looked up a birth record, was it actually a registration of a  birth, or was it parish record, like a baptism? 

[ThrelfallYorky]

... and the year? Many records prior to 19th C seem to think it's detail if "Wife of..." is specified. When you say "looked up" is it online B M D , or a parish record, or....?

[danieloftyne]

Hi all sorry about the lack of details the particular member I'm looking for was registered in 1900 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne but there is no name on registration for the mother yet there she is on the 1911 census declared as a daughter her two siblings born 5 yrs later have a mum named

[bevj]

Do you mean that the record just says 'XXX daughter of John Smith' without mentioning the mother?
Bev

[PaulineJ]

what sort of record is it?
a baptism  or a GRO birth registration?

What's the 1901 census entry, who is this child with then?

[pinefamily]

How I'm reading the OP's posts:
A birth record has no maiden name attached, yet younger siblings found via a census do.
I would think that possibly the first child was born out of wedlock and the other two within a marriage.  Have you checked for a marriage of the parents between the births?