How long does a child have to live for to be registered

[Guest]

I have a Birth and a Death in Jun 1911 ,am sure I read somewhere that a child has to live for so long before being registered? is that right

[JudithM]

My understanding is that any live birth must be registered, no matter how long the baby survives. Still births are registered separately. see this parliamentary document.

https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-library/Registration-of-stillbirth-SN05595.pdf

[Olde Crone Holden]

If a baby takes one breath, the birth and death must be registered. If the baby does not take one breath, it is registered as a stillbirth.

OC

[Guest]

thanks both, wish she had lived longer as her mother disappears, at the same time. and it might have been easier to find her.

[Janet in Yorkshire]

According to one of my aunts, my grandmother's son lived for only a few minutes - both birth & death were registered, but I haven't bought the certs. No baptism or burial entry in PR. I have found a report of an inquest, at which it was reported that the infant died suddenly, of natural causes.

My friend's mother gave birth to twin girls - the baptism register recorded that one child was stillborn, the other lived for 20 minutes and was baptised by the doctor. There were birth and death registrations for the latter.

Jay

[Sylvia C]

I understood that one breath meant that the child was born alive, and that it should then be registered.

But I did once find a death registration for a child and have never found a birth registration. It was suggested that some parents might be in such a state after a quick death that they might forget to register the birth.

That seems to make sense to me, as the father could register the death, but the mother was supposed to register the birth.

[Anne in Carlisle]

I have one which I am pretty sure matches the same birth where the death reg is in the Quarter before the birth reg. Very sad but the registrations only need go be a day or two apart for that to happen.
Anne

[margaretmarch]

I understood that one breath meant that the child was born alive, and that it should then be registered.

But I did once find a death registration for a child and have never found a birth registration. It was suggested that some parents might be in such a state after a quick death that they might forget to register the birth.

That seems to make sense to me, as the father could register the death, but the mother was supposed to register the birth.

I have one the same - my grandmother had a daughter who lived 3 months but no birth just a death reg.

I like to buy both certificates as there is no other means of knowing these people existed.

Margaret