Mataylor@homestead92.fsnet.co.uk wrote: > Are there any Church records that might help? Christening is possible at > birth. Was it a home birth or hospital if a difficult birth? If hospital > maybe records. The survival of hospital records is unlikely. It would be a case of knowing which hospital and contacting the adminstrator, if the hospital still exists. > Is there a time delay between birth and registration? Maybe view either side > of your Grandmothers registration a bit further. Would one twin be registered but not the other? > On the indexes look for unknown at the end of the quarter. Whilst family may > have named her it might only have been after legal registration had taken > place. The unknowns are quite literally that: foundlings whose parents were not known and who had no name. They are given a name by whatever institution took care of them. A twin wouldn't fall into that category. If no name was given at the time of birth or in the 6 weeks following, then the child would be registered under the family surname and Female as the given name. If the child was subsequently named, the parents could have applied for re-registration and the index entry would have been annotated. However, if the child was registered because she lived, ie took a single breath, then there'd be a corresponding death entry. -- Charani (UK)