Sitting from a distance as we are its very hard to know the reasons some things happen in the past Change of registrar, illness of mother of father, moving home.short of work etc etc It is also possible an event or more was registered locally but it was not reported back to the GRO in the quarterly returns, or was and was misspelled Wherever humans are involved there is plenty of scope for them to make a hash of it ;-) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 14-Nov-16 12:22 PM, [email protected] wrote: > There is one possible one for the baby's death but nothing for her birth and > certainly none for mum. The only possible one gives the age as 62 and it is > a quarter too early for an August funeral so it can't be that one. Allsop > is a common name in the area so not worth 'wasting' another £6 on the baby > death. Her 2 older brothers' births were both registered but I guess if > mother Hannah was ill after the birth then that might explain why baby Mary > wasn't, especially if she was a sickly child who only lived for a month. > Likewise, if Hannah was the driving force behind registering the other > births, nobody would have the same enthusiasm to register her death as they > would have had more important things to do than that. > > Thanks for your help, great as usual. > > Meg in Devon.