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From: "Roger Davies" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Late Birth Registration
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:47:59 -0000
References: <43AAFC93.6070802@shaw.ca> <03a901c6072f$8569d240$4301a8c0@mums> <004701c6072e$faf4b8f0$c68e8556@NJOvington>


Hi all - It is often said that registration was not compulsory, but I have
found every single one of the 33 of my and my wife's ancestors who were born
after registration began. Some required perseverance, like the one who was
registered as Edmund Williams, but was known as William Williams all his
life from the age of two. I eventually found him using his exact date of
birth from his employment record.

What are other people's experiences - how many of your ancestors are truly
missing rather than just unfound yet?

Roger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nivard Ovington" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Late Birth Registration


>
> Hi Ann
>
> You say "You had to register in 6 weeks" but there was no penalty so why
> would you lose a days pay?
>
> It was the registrars job to register a birth and around 1878 before a
> penalty was imposed on the parents for not doing so.
>


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