RE: Fundamental Question about GRO (UK) Death Records


Tickettyboo wrote: -
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Subject: Re: Fundamental Question about GRO (UK) Death Records


<eve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In some possible records we have seen an age given as 0 (zero). Does
this mean that the person died at or just after birth, or could this
also mean that the age was not known at the time of registration? Many
thanks - Chris B.

It means died under the age of one year, so it could be a
very young infant or anything up to 11+ months. It is
unlikely to be one who died at birth, since they would not
normally be named, just 'male' or 'female'.

I think that 'normally' may not apply everywhere.
I am transcribing burials for the parish of Holy Trinity, Usworth, Co.
Durham 1877-1900. There were (too) many wee ones who were born and died
too
soon. I have ages in the parish register as low as 5 minutes, many died
wthin the hour or day, a lot died before they reached their first
birthday.
In 23 years of this parish's register not one of these children were
without
a first name. Not even those who had died so soon that they were not
baptised and therefore did not get a service at their burial.
The civil registrations for both birth and death were done and again, in
that 23 year time frame, none of these children were registered without a
name.
I have no idea if this is unusual or not, but certainly in that parish it
was not normal to register under the heading of 'Male' or Female'

--
Ticketty_::


Chris B's question and Eve's reply referred to the GRO index though, not
parish registers.

The registrar may be happy to register the death as male / female, there's
no onus to insist on a name, and it's no skin off the registrar's nose
either way. I suspect that there may have been trouble getting even an
un-baptized, un-named, infant buried by many clergyman in the nineteenth
century though. Even if the infant had no name in life, the clergyman may
have insisted that they be given one in death in order to get buried.

I have an instance from the 1920s were an infant is registered as male child
of... on both his birth and death certificates, having died after 20 hours;
he wasn't baptized, but has a name when buried by a clergyman in a council
owned cemetery a couple of days later.

Kushti bok,

Chris Westmoreland


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