I'm currently working on adding all of my grandmother's brothers and sisters to my family tree. Their surname was Bateman, mother's maiden name Badrick. I was searching this on Ancestry and it came up with one called "Walter S Bateman" born in 1921. My mother doesn't recall knowing an uncle with that name, but she is going to talk to my grandmother tomorrow. My grandmother believes that her mother (Ruth Badrick) had 2 babies that died, so it could be that Walter is one of them, however I can't find a record of a death that seems to match. The next problem I have is that when I open up the actual image of the birth record I cannot find a "Walter S Bateman" on there The only thing on the page that seems to match the details is a "William S Bateman" mother's maiden name Badrick. I would be grateful if anyone had any idea where the name "Walter S" got transcribed from because it looks nothing like it! For people with Ancestry, this is a link to the page: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...=&pid=35564486
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It seems to be just a weird mistranscription by Ancestry. If you do the same search on FreeBMD, you'll see they've transcribed it correctly:
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Originally posted by Mary from Italy View PostIt seems to be just a weird mistranscription by Ancestry. If you do the same search on FreeBMD, you'll see they've transcribed it correctly:
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.plWright, Hamments, Male, Murphy, Bateman, Badrick
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Babies were often either buried in a communal grave with other babies or placed in the same grave as an unrelated adult.
If you can find out which is the most likely council cemetery where the burial would have taken place, it's worth asking for a search of their registers. Some are free, but others can be quite expensive.
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Originally posted by Mary from Italy View PostBabies were often either buried in a communal grave with other babies or placed in the same grave as an unrelated adult.
If you can find out which is the most likely council cemetery where the burial would have taken place, it's worth asking for a search of their registers. Some are free, but others can be quite expensive.Wright, Hamments, Male, Murphy, Bateman, Badrick
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