Yes it was standard for the father (assuming there was one on record) to registered the birth. 14 days after birth is not IMHO an unusual amount of time between birth and registration. I have a large number BC registers and many took longer than that - on average 25 days. Have one which was well over a year after the fact. A lot of people lived in remote areas and did not get into town all that often. As far as providing any info he wanted I suppose anything is possible but one has to ask why he would not register it as it was? Keep in mind fathers are human and errors do happen! :-) I also recall reading someplace can't recall if it was in Canada or the UK that there was a set time frame that the child's birth was to be registered. One year after birth? If the father was late in registering the birth it was not unheard of for the date of birth to be incorrectly stated to avoid a problem. Perhaps someone else knows a bit more about that and what time was legally allowed. Carol ____________ Hello List I've recently begun to wonder how Births were registered in BC in the 1920s. More specifically, who registered them and how do we know the information was accurate? I have a copy of a Certificate of Birth issued in 1937 for a relative saying he was born in 1923. The birth was registered 14 days after the birth and the information was provided by the father. Was this the standard way to have registered a birth if it didn't happen in a hospital? Could not the father have provided any information he wanted to? Sorry if this question sounds a little vague but the outcome could be a bit of a surprise to relatives. Grant ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Hi List In the UK the time limit is 42 days. That was after 1874 when the 1837 Registration Act was re-written to make it compulsory for *anybody* present at an event to notify the registra.. Before that the onus seemed to be on the registra to "discover" births so some went unrecorded. Regards Peter G Kingsclere, Hampshire, UK >-----Original Message----- >From: Carol [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: 22 March 2005 05:47 >To: [email protected] >Subject: [CAN-BC] RE:Birth Registration > > >Yes it was standard for the father (assuming there was >one on record) to registered the birth. > >14 days after birth is not IMHO an unusual amount of >time between birth and registration. I have a large >number BC registers and many took longer than that - >on average 25 days. Have one which was well over a >year after the fact. A lot of people lived in remote >areas and did not get into town all that often. > >As far as providing any info he wanted I suppose >anything is possible but one has to ask why he would >not register it as it was? Keep in mind fathers are >human and errors do happen! :-) > >I also recall reading someplace can't recall if it was >in Canada or the UK that there was a set time frame >that the child's birth was to be registered. One year >after birth? If the father was late in registering the >birth it was not unheard of for the date of birth to >be incorrectly stated to avoid a problem. Perhaps >someone else knows a bit more about that and what time >was legally allowed. > >Carol > > >____________ > >Hello List > > I've recently begun to wonder how Births were >registered in >BC in the 1920s. More specifically, who registered >them and how do >we know the information was accurate? > I have a copy of a Certificate of Birth issued in >1937 for a >relative saying he was born in 1923. The birth was >registered 14 >days after the birth and the information was provided >by the father. >Was this the standard way to have registered a birth >if it didn't >happen in a hospital? Could not the father have >provided any >information he wanted to? > Sorry if this question sounds a little vague but the >outcome >could be a bit of a surprise to relatives. > >Grant > > > >______________________________________________________________________ >Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== >Visit the British Columbia Gen Web page at >http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbc/ > >