Late birth entry

[Muggins in Sussex]

I have found a birth in 1919. It is a handwritten late entry of a birth registered in 1932.

Presumably if I send for the cert I will have to give the 1932 details (?)

Why would the parents (presumably it was the parents?) decide to register the birth when the child was 13? I cannot find an obvious marriage for the parents.

Another thing seems a bit odd - at least to me! - using fictitious names in case anyone is alive -

In the same quarter and district in 1919 are 2 births:-

John Smith mmm Smith

John Jones mmm Smith (this is the handwritten late entry), which appears in the index in 1932.

Maybe that last bit is a red herring, but I can't see any obvious deaths for either John Jones or John Smith

[kiterunner]

It sounds like a re-registration of an illegitimate birth after the parents married each other.

[Muggins in Sussex]

Thanks Kite - so would the person then have two birth certificates? :confused:

[kiterunner]

I think they're supposed to return any copies of the original one when they are re-registered.

[Merry]

Yes, "supposed to" :rolleyes:

[Muggins in Sussex]

Thanks again, Kite & Merry :)

So the certificate I would need to send for would be the 1932 one, I guess (?)

[kiterunner]

That's right. I think if you ordered the 1919 one they would send you the 1932 one anyway.

[Muggins in Sussex]

Thanks, Kite :) I'll send for the 1932 cert :)

[kiterunner]

Do you want to PM me the info in case I can help you rule him out and save you the cost of the cert?

[Muggins in Sussex]

Ooh thanks Kite :)

Will do

[Langley Vale Sue]

I have a family member, born in the 1930s, to unmarried parents although the mother had officially changed her surname to that of the father about 10 years before the birth. After the father's wife died in the 1960s, the parents married & the child, now in their mid-twenties, was re-registered. Incidentally this was just after the child's marriage. The names are all the same on the certificates apart from the mother's who is listed as (not her real names) Smith, formerly Jones on the first one and Smith, formerly Smith on the 2nd one.

I've often wondered why the adult child was re-registered as there was no name change and the father is listed on the original registration as the parents were living as man & wife when the child was born. Why bother to re-register the child, and especially after the child's own marriage?

[kiterunner]

Because the law says you have to.

[Langley Vale Sue]

Oh OK Kite. I didn't know it was law, even though one of my grandaughters has two registrations, one before her parents marriage & one after. :confused: