Finding Birth and death records/certificates

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

RAS wrote: »

Do you have any information at all?

Did this person ever marry?

In my case, just his name (a fairly unusual one). Which isn't necessarily what he was registered with, as an Ancestry search doesn't reveal any birth records for him in a ten year spread. He may have been born in Edinburgh.

RAS

Roughly when? Half my lot are Scottish and most in Lothian.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

RAS wrote: »

Roughly when? Half my lot are Scottish and most in Lothian.

1930s. He was described as being from Fife, but the person saying that has form for talking complete nonsense to make herself feel big.

torbrex

OP
You don't say if he is Scottish, English or Welsh.
Having done quite a number of searches in Scotland, I find them easy to do but I have been advised that searching the English records is not so easy

RAS

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

1930s. He was described as being from Fife, but the person saying that has form for talking complete nonsense to make herself feel big.

Well the Fife accent is pretty strong. Did you ever hear him speak?

I have spent many a happy hour in Register House sorting through my lot. I hate the public web-site like nothing else.

Great gran on one side decided to raise all the children from her first family under her second husband's name; I still cannot trace one of the children of the second family and suspect that she may actually have been pregnant when she was widowed and lied completely about his parentage (well she had form). Her children gave false information when they married because she maintained the lies!

And on the other side all four children lied about their parentage completely; giving their grandparents names as parents and getting the grandmother's maiden name completely wrong. GGF's marriage cert was correct on three counts; his first name, family name and occupation. Age, parentage etc all lies.

RAS

torbrex wrote: »

OP
You don't say if he is Scottish, English or Welsh.
Having done quite a number of searches in Scotland, I find them easy to do but I have been advised that searching the English records is not so easy

If you are working off the national indexes for stuff after compulsory regsitration came in, then they are very similar. However Scottish birth record tend to list the date and place of the parent's marriage which make tracing back much easier.

Scottish records prior to 1855 are a nightmare compared with English ones.

For one thing it is easier to deal with the transition from parish to civil registration in England; with 1837 registration and the 1841 census offering a good match for many populations.

The main one however is that prior to 1855 there was NO legal requirement to register a child or a marriage anywhere whereas this had been more or less compulsory since the 16C in England. One parish I work with in the Borders kept no record of marriages from 1800-1842 for example. And burial records frequently only refer to "a child" or "an old woman."

nearlyrich

I found one of my great uncles on a census was allegedy born in Edinboro (SP) he was actually born in Wellingborough which makes sense as the rest of the family was from Cambridgeshire...took a bit of finding..I blame their weird accents combined with a deaf Census enumerator.

RAS

One lady I helped spent a lot of time trying to find Hugh. Except I found the children living with Uriah.

Suddenly realsied on day that if you are a new Registrar used to locals using the aspirated H and someone tells you their husband's name is U... it is going to end up on the register as Hugh.

And as for the 1911 census! Anyone want to guess where Tchedderley is?