CWatters wrote: >[...] >I'm aware that a British citizen born abroad can register the birth at >the British Consulate but was that info routinely sent back to the UK ? >[...] One of my gg-uncles was born in Ulster but brought up and educated in Scotland and England before going out to India. His daughter was born in India in 1892, but spent most of her life in England. She knew of no birth certificate so, as she approached 100, negotiations occurred and Buckingham Palace accepted her baptismal certificate as proof of age (and the day and month from the family). It turned out, a decade or so after the 100th birthday, that her birth had in fact been registered in the UK (information sent from Calcutta, if I recollect correctly); the English relatives dealing with the matter in the late 20C had not thought of checking in Dublin. (Separate point, in passing: a British Consulate in France, about 10 years ago, made it clear that they took information from the French documents rather than the parents, not least to ensure that the child had the same names in both systems.)