On 6:59 AM, Nivard Ovington wrote: > Hi Barbara > > Firstly stillbirths were not registered before 1927 > > However much depends on the understanding of the rules by the person > filling in the 1911 schedule > > The question in 1911 was :- > > Children born *alive* to present marriage > (sub questions) > Total children born alive > Children still living > Children who have died > > Answers expressed in numbers > > I have found several schedules where the person included all children, > even to more than one marriage, I have also found total children > including a known stillbirth (knowledge from a burial where > stillbirths are sometimes recorded) > > So if the mother considered that any stillbirths were her children (as > she had carried them to full term but were delivered dead) it is > possible she included them in the total > > It is always a very emotive issue and what caring husband would refuse > his wifes desire to record those children? > > As I mentioned it may be worth checking for burials but far from all > stillbirths burials were recorded, they were often just put in with > another burial and not recorded > > I would exhaust any possible birth registrations and baptisms first > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > > >> My G Grandad James Richards 1850 lived with his wife Harriet Gertrude >> Simpson 1851in St. Martin, Lincs. I found them on the relevant census's >> along with their children William Henry 1874, Charles Edward 1875, Jane >> Elizabeth 1878,Alice Gertrude 1880 - 1882, James 1883, Herbert 1887 and >> Edith Mary 1890. On the 1911 census it says they had 9 children but >> only 6 living, I've managed to find the 7 mentioned but can't find the >> other 2 who obviously died young. Would there be records made of still >> born babies ? These two must have been born and died between census's at >> some time. >> Any help with this would be much appreciated. >> Barbara. > > Thanks Nivard, Will keep on looking and have found a couple of possibles which I am going to check out. I don,t know much about this family and am sorry I never thought to talk to my Dad about them before he died, I didn,t become interested in family history until I retired and by then most of my older relatives had passed on. Thanks again for your help. Barbara in Australia. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

I think you are in a wide ranging club Barbara Many people take up the hobby when most of the people who could answer our questions have passed away Or is it that we take it up because we can't get answers to our questions :-) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Thanks Nivard, > Will keep on looking and have found a couple of possibles which I am > going to check out. I don,t know much about this family and am sorry I > never thought to talk to my Dad about them before he died, I didn,t > become interested in family history until I retired and by then most of > my older relatives had passed on. > Thanks again for your help. > > Barbara in Australia.