Still birth registration - old procedures

[dzug2]

I'm looking to find the registration of a possible still birth that took place in the mid-1940s

Should I be searching birth registers or death registers or both? Or are they on a separate 'restricted' register that only close relatives can see?

[starone]

If the child went to full term it would have been registered (I think). There may be problems if, say, it was only five months. There is a 'cut-off' date, but I am not sure what it is. Someone else, will know. There are some very knowledgeable people on Answerbank.

[bunkmoreland]

depending on where you live in the country,files of probably full term still births,are kept in the general register offices.there is one for england and wales,and one each for scotland and northern ireland.you can easily google for their address.good luck;-)

[dotty.]

however...........there are restrictions on purchasing a copy certificate:
http://www.direct.gov...ertificates/DG_175676

[munchie63]

documents are restricted to prevent ID theft

[dzug2]

Many thanks for the replies - I've come to the conclusion that this particular case was not full term - can't find anything in the indexes for either births or deaths

[dotty.]

there may be one possible avenue dzug2, the child may have been baptised and then buried, you could look at the registers of the Church closeto where they lived. there may also be a monumental inscription on a family grave, sometimes babies were buried in grandparents graves. let me know where they lived and i can tell you probable burial sites.

[bookbinder]

My parents had a daughter in 1932. This happened before I was born (in 1939). The girl lived for about 1 hour, but my parents did not tell me anything else about her. Her death was recorded in the normal death registers, and I found the necessary details via Genes Reunited a few years ago.

[bunkmoreland]

my grandmother had a full term little boy that was stillborn. her minister would not baptise him because he was stillborn and because he wasn't baptised,he wasn't allowed to be buried in consecrated ground. the minister only allowed him to be buried at the back of the church.we have never seen the church records,but i imagine there must have been some sort of account of where the grave was.

[dzug2]

The child won't have been baptised - the parents were baptists or similar so didn't believe in infant baptism.

But grandparents' graves is something to follow up. I can probably locate them

[Segilla]

I'm very rusty on this but is it at the end of the alphabetical forenames for any given surname you may find Male and Female, being unnamed children and possibly stillborn, or those who lived for a short time only?