My grandfather was born in 1870 and never registered. Just prior to WW! His former schoolmaster wrote a letter to the authorities explaining how ill health had prevented his mother from registering the birth within the prescribed period. Included in the letter was a handwritten transcript of the baptism entry from the church record. The letter, which I have, is accompanied by a second one from the schoolmaster to my grandfather explaining that he cannot register in retrospect but that the one provided will provide him with protection from the authorities should they decide to call him up as being of service age - which at 44 he wasn't! Dennis ------------------------------------ On 25/07/2012 12:31, "Robert Holmes" <holmes@holmesr923.plus.com> wrote: >I read quite recently that about 1874 it became the duty of parents to >report a birth rather than the registar going in search of birth. My >grandfather was born around 1873 and may therefore have been one of the >30 percent of unreported births. Question is how did they get a pension >assuming they lived to 65? Was a birth cert required ; could they >register retrospectively etc > > >Bob Holmes in tropical Axbridge >------------------------------- >List archives are at >http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/WARWICK > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message