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From: "Janice Aitkens" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Workhouse birth
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:39:46 -0000
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You should look at the year before the baptism, don't give up it could be a
spelling error when registering or transcribing
Regards Janice
----- Original Message -----
From: "christine MILLER" <>
To: "Janice Aitkens" <>; <>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Workhouse birth


> Thanks for your swift replies - Keith & Janice!
> Elizabeth was not wed when she had the baby. I've looked at the entries
> for
> a year after the Baptism. It's so disappointing!
> Christine
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janice Aitkens" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Lon] Workhouse birth
>
>
>> Hi
>> As I just been told that a baptism can happen a while after the birth not
>> necessary within a short while of birth so if you could see when it the
>> baptism took place on the registry does it say birth date or may be was
>> baptised but not registered with father's name as not wed
>> Regards Janice
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "christine MILLER" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Lon] Workhouse birth
>>
>>
>> >I have the date of my G Grandfathers Baptism in a workhouse. Have
>> >scoured
>> > 1837 online in vain for his Birth entry. No sign of it. Did different
>> > 'rules' apply re registration if you gave Birth in a workhouse?
>> > Christine.
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "MADELEINE BERKS" <>
>> > To: <>
>> > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:41 PM
>> > Subject: [Lon] Workhouse birth
>> >
>> >
>> >> I have just noticed a request regarding registration of a child born
>> >> in
> a
>> > workhouse.It has made me think.
>> >>
>> >> My dad was born in a Workhouse Infirmery, I have the proof of that.
>> >> But
> I
>> > am not able to find his birth certificate anywhere. Could it be that as
>> > his
>> > mother was quite ill and she had to stay in the Infirmery, that no one
> got
>> > around to registering him? I have the workhouse notes about his
> birth,but
>> > there is no sign of him being registered any where. I have tried every
>> > avenue to find his registration, so I have come to the conclusion that
> it
>> > probably wasn't done. Anyone got any thoughts on it for me please?
>> > Madeleine.
>> >>
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