Stillborn

[Guy Etchells]

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/stillbirth-certificate-application-form

This is the website for applications of The Northern Ireland Stillbirth Registry. England and Wales applications can be obtained from https://www.gov.uk/general-register-office. Other than the parent's names (which you need to apply for a certificate) the certificate's only family history value is the date of stillbirth and after 1960 the cause of the stillbirth. My parents named my stillborn brother, born in 1965, Huw but weren't allowed to record the name on his stillborn certificate. They weren't allowed to bury him either, he was disposed of as "clinical waste", something that still haunts and hurts my parents 50+ years later.

Oops yes I had just posted an email to a friend who lives in N. Ireland about the same subject and grabbed the highlighted url instead of the English ones from my database.

The yellow van will be coming for me soon.
Cheers
Guy

[Viktoria]

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/stillbirth-certificate-application-form

This is the website for applications of The Northern Ireland Stillbirth Registry. England and Wales applications can be obtained from https://www.gov.uk/general-register-office. Other than the parent's names (which you need to apply for a certificate) the certificate's only family history value is the date of stillbirth and after 1960 the cause of the stillbirth. My parents named my stillborn brother, born in 1965, Huw but weren't allowed to record the name on his stillborn certificate. They weren't allowed to bury him either, he was disposed of as "clinical waste", something that still haunts and hurts my parents 50+ years later.

How insensitive and cruel.
There is no closure in that is there!
Who wouldn’t be hurt and haunted by that.
That is truly upsetting to read so how hard it must have been for Huw’s and your parents ,and you too ,to know of your brother.
Kind regards.
Viktoria.