Pauline Roberts wrote: > In the first > instance, even if a child is placed in another person's coffin, there has to > be, by law, a note in the burial register. Not if the child is stillborn. It was the standard way of burying such a child, even as late as the 1960s. > If the child was given away, > there should have been registration, and that is the one I am going to have > to pursue with vigour. There was not another child of the same age within > the family, I have gone and re-checked my records today. Even if the child was fostered to another family, then, as you say, there should have been a registration. If there is no record in the local register office, then it's unlikely there was ever a twin. However, there is a remote possibility that the child was fostered at birth by another family and registered by that family as their own. Perhaps twins were more than the mother felt she could cope with and a neighbour/friend/relative had lost their own baby so a solution presented itself. If that did happen, then your chances of tracing such the child will be nil because you could never be sure that a child called Lucy with another family was the twin you are seeking. -- Charani (UK)

I'm finding all your comments very negative and unhelpful to the lady in question, you seem to just be disagreeing with everyone else's suggestions, you may not mean it that way, but that's the way it seems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <familyhunter@family-hunter.co.uk> To: <gloucester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [GLS] Birth of Twins > Pauline Roberts wrote: > > > In the first > > instance, even if a child is placed in another person's coffin, there has to > > be, by law, a note in the burial register. > > Not if the child is stillborn. It was the standard way of burying > such a child, even as late as the 1960s. > > > If the child was given away, > > there should have been registration, and that is the one I am going to have > > to pursue with vigour. There was not another child of the same age within > > the family, I have gone and re-checked my records today. > > Even if the child was fostered to another family, then, as you say, > there should have been a registration. If there is no record in the > local register office, then it's unlikely there was ever a twin. > > However, there is a remote possibility that the child was fostered at > birth by another family and registered by that family as their own. > Perhaps twins were more than the mother felt she could cope with and a > neighbour/friend/relative had lost their own baby so a solution > presented itself. If that did happen, then your chances of tracing > such the child will be nil because you could never be sure that a > child called Lucy with another family was the twin you are seeking. > > -- > Charani (UK) > _____________________________________________ > > Browse the list archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ > > Keyword search - any or all lists: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Jane Clark wrote: > I'm finding all your comments very negative and unhelpful to the lady in > question, you seem to just be disagreeing with everyone else's suggestions, > you may not mean it that way, but that's the way it seems. So be it I'm not "disagreeing with everyone else's suggestions", just trying to be realistic as a result of 4 decades of research. There's nothing worse that building up someone's hopes and for them to discover it's all for nowt. -- Charani (UK)

Yes you are actually, and can you not send different messages to my personal mail box. You are not building up her hopes, you're just putting down everyone elses suggestions. As far as refraining from reading your emails, this is a mailing list, if you do not want people to see what you write, then don't send honey! Jane :o) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <familyhunter@family-hunter.co.uk> To: <gloucester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [GLS] Birth of Twins > Jane Clark wrote: > > I'm finding all your comments very negative and unhelpful to the lady in > > question, you seem to just be disagreeing with everyone else's suggestions, > > you may not mean it that way, but that's the way it seems. > > So be it > > I'm not "disagreeing with everyone else's suggestions", just trying to > be realistic as a result of 4 decades of research. There's nothing > worse that building up someone's hopes and for them to discover it's > all for nowt. > -- > Charani (UK) > _____________________________________________ > > Browse the list archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ > > Keyword search - any or all lists: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message