Is there any estimate of the percentage of births that were not registered?
Some of my ancestors came from the courts in Liverpool and, when the need to register came in in 1837 it must have been so difficult to inform these illiterate, transient people of this.
If births were not registered did it cause difficulties? Two of my ancestors were living together and had seeral children in the 1880s but I cant find any registration for them. They only seem to have started registering their children once they married in 1896. Of course they may have been using an alias as Walter Frankish?Roseby had been in prison.
I would be very interested in your thoughts!
Some of my ancestors came from the courts in Liverpool and, when the need to register came in in 1837 it must have been so difficult to inform these illiterate, transient people of this.
If births were not registered did it cause difficulties? Two of my ancestors were living together and had seeral children in the 1880s but I cant find any registration for them. They only seem to have started registering their children once they married in 1896. Of course they may have been using an alias as Walter Frankish?Roseby had been in prison.
I would be very interested in your thoughts!
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