Reginald Yates is present as a 3 week old baby on the 1911 census with parents Samuel and Matilda (nee Howard), but has no apparent birth (or death) registration. There is only one male child registered in Wolstanton district (Stoke on Trent, Staffs) in the Mar qtr of 1911, a James Yates who is present on the 1911 census in Wolstanton as 2 months old.
Similarly there is only one male child registered in the second quarter in Wolstanton called Clarence Yates, for whom there is death registration in Sep-Dec 1969 which gives a d.o.b of 13 Mar 1911. The 1911 census was taken on the night of 2 April. Clarence would have been 2wks and 6 days old, or 3 wks on the following morning. Is this a case of parents changing their minds about a name? The deadline for registering him would not have been until into the next quarter anyway. What do you think - a possibility? Worth buying a birth cert for?
Kate x
Similarly there is only one male child registered in the second quarter in Wolstanton called Clarence Yates, for whom there is death registration in Sep-Dec 1969 which gives a d.o.b of 13 Mar 1911. The 1911 census was taken on the night of 2 April. Clarence would have been 2wks and 6 days old, or 3 wks on the following morning. Is this a case of parents changing their minds about a name? The deadline for registering him would not have been until into the next quarter anyway. What do you think - a possibility? Worth buying a birth cert for?
Kate x
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