1911 Birth certificate

[marka2378]

Not sure if I'm posting in the right place but I have a birth certificate when my grt grandmother gave birth. She was in the workhouse at the time which is on the birth certificate as informant but then it says she was at 1 sinclair rd, Hammersmith under mother. I know the workhouse started to put a different address but they were no where near each other so I wondered why would that address be listed when she wasn't there.

Many thanks for any help, I have attached the birth certificate.

[rosie99]

Sorry I am not able to read that copy.  Workhouses were hospitals so she would have gone in to have the baby then returned home

[Dundee]

I also see it as the child being born in the infirmary and the usual place of residence for the mother is in column 5.

Debra 

[marka2378]

I have reloaded the doc, she was in the workhouse for 4 years from 1910 - 1914 so didn't have a home. So could it be somewhere she worked before the workhouse.

[marka2378]

The informant is the mother, but the address is different to the mother. She went into the workhouse 7 months before giving birth.

[josey]

Have you looked to see who was at 7 [not 1 as far as I can see] Sinclair Road on the 1911 census - taken on 2 April?

[marka2378]

I think I come up with 1 as when I blew the doc up it looked like an ink drip making it look like a 7 also number 1 employed servants. The main thing I'm trying to work out is who would of gave the information for the birth certificate, the mother or the workhouse.

[ReadyDale]

Interesting though that the baby is born and registered in the workhouse/infirmary in Shoerditch (204 Hoxton Street) and the mother gives her address as Hammersmith. These aren't close.
Under mother, the residence is quoted as Hammersmith, but under informant the mother is said to be resident of the Shoreditch address.

[Ruskie]

Mother was the informant as per column 7. She would have given the information.

I thought it looked like 7 Sinclair Road too. It would be worth checking both addresses.

I wonder if the Hammersmith address was where she worked as a domestic servant, perhaps she lived in, but may have been dismissed when she became pregnant, hence ending up in the workhouse. 

The column only asks for name and maiden surname of mother, but her address and occupation was included, so they must have thought it relevant.