What Happened to Stillborn Babies in the 1950s
Hi I am trying to trace the nativity and expiry of my blood brother born in Brighton in the centre 1950'southward but I exercise not know what year exactly. My mother and begetter who take both passed abroad said that he was born past forceps but had brain damage and died a couple of days later. I cannot observe any records at all. Does anyone know if records were kept of these babies and if so where i will be able to find them.
I do not wish to name him here so please PM me if you lot may be able to help.
Many thanks.
karen
Aye.............if a kid takes even i independent breath...there should exist birth and expiry records.
You tin can PM me...........
If he wasnt a stillborn so his birth and decease should be recorded.
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Surname Fahse. Federal republic of germany. Essex .Due south East London My avatar is i of our wedding photos of 1957
Only to say I've had no luck.....perhaps someone else would be kind plenty to offer their services.
Was he born whilst your parents were married or could he have been born and registered under your mother's maiden name?
If you desire to send the details I will have a look.
Kath. ten
My parents were born in 1951 and he was born after their matrimony as I have a letter of sympathy which indicates only a couple of years previous to 1958 when I was born
Thank you for the message Karen.
Unfortunately I can only discover your nascency reference. Take tried with all 3 surnames and found nothing.
Kath. x
Accept you checked with the GRO at Southport only in case he was stillborn equally these records are non open to the public but if your parents are both deceased then yous would be able to take access to the stillbirth record.
Kath. x
If the hospital he was born at was in another registration area would this explain why you can't find him. It'due south just that my kids were born whilst I lived within Birmingham surface area only are registered in Solihull considering they were born in Solihull Hospital.
Also, and no proffer towards your parents simply hospitals and others had ideas well-nigh the all-time affair to do for the parents when a babe was built-in with disability or deformity etc. Attitudes in the 50'south were horrendous and that followed into the 60s too and parents were encouraged to permit the regime take such children because they were told the child would be better off in an institution. Parents were then expected to 'forget' the child. It may be that your parents were 'encouraged' by the doctors if your brothe was then poorly and died speedily to pretend nothing had ever happened and to motility on with their lives. Of course they couldn't practise that and would never forget but f the hospital was supposed to 'take intendance of everything', then it'southward possible that the nascency and death was never registered. This could be man fault or an attempt to hide incompetence during the birth. Sad but a sad truth about our social club.
I hope you find him.
Jill
Researching:
Birmingham: Forest,Benson,Eadie,Wassall. Barnsley: Eadie. Whalsay,Sheltland: Polson,Poleson. Chipping Norton: Busby. Winchcombe: Goodall/Goodhall. Kate MM (Eadie) Meteyard. Sidney Herbert Meteyard - English Pre-Raphaelite Painter and fellow member of the Birmingham Grouping. Meteyard/Meatyard family.
Jill, cheers, I have often wondered if this is the instance considering when I had a cesaerean with my first born I remember my female parent saying that the doctors should have given her 1 too and not used forceps. I wish I had asked her more earlier she died but I just couldn't bring myself to injure her.
I will do as kathleen above suggested (thanks Kathleen) just in case he was registered every bit even so born only I exercise know she said he lived for \ couple of days. I may write to the hospital in question as well to see if they can throw low-cal on information technology besides. Thanks everyone for your assist
Karen
It would not be on the GRO records you have to Phone Southport,and they are very fussy about giving these records out.Commonly to parents just.
Ellen
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"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You lot take a body." C.S.Lewis
If you are certain which area he should be registered in, you could phone their register office and ask if they can check for his birth / decease.
It may be that the information got missed off the master GRO index.
Some Annals office staff are really helpful.
I phoned an office in Wales this week hunting for a DAVIES death. Inside an hr they phoned to say that they'd found it.
Gwyn
Hi ya hate to say this only most babies that died close to nascency . Where put I'due north with other babies not unless ur parents had a proper burying for your brother . Just my advice would exist to get I'n touch with the cemetery or parish ad to where he is buried . I no crusade I had to do information technology with my brothet
I doubt you will become anywhere with the hospital somehow. The powers that be tell us we alive in a free order only I believe GB is one of the nearly secretive societies you volition find.
I wonder if your parents had the opportunity to get the child baptised. It might exist worth seeing if you local churches have anything.
If yous ring the local Registrar y'all could endeavor asking if there were births and deaths registered for whatever children who were not named. In that location must surely be or accept been this facility to allow for deceased abandoned babies who obviously were unidentifiable.
I'd similar to know how you go on.
Jill
Researching:
Birmingham: Forest,Benson,Eadie,Wassall. Barnsley: Eadie. Whalsay,Sheltland: Polson,Poleson. Chipping Norton: Busby. Winchcombe: Goodall/Goodhall. Kate MM (Eadie) Meteyard. Sidney Herbert Meteyard - English Pre-Raphaelite Painter and member of the Birmingham Grouping. Meteyard/Meatyard family.
Cheers to everyone who has helped on this for me. I have contacted the GRO and they are sending me a form to complete. Jillian I accept been to the county records office and looked for a baptism merely there is not tape of one. I have checked the births records at that place also and tomorrow I am going back in that location equally they have ordered in the death registers too. So i may take some luck there.
Karen
Good luck for tomorrow. I hope that you will be back on here in the evening to say you lot have found him.
Jill
Researching:
Birmingham: Forest,Benson,Eadie,Wassall. Barnsley: Eadie. Whalsay,Sheltland: Polson,Poleson. Chipping Norton: Busby. Winchcombe: Goodall/Goodhall. Kate MM (Eadie) Meteyard. Sidney Herbert Meteyard - English Pre-Raphaelite Painter and member of the Birmingham Group. Meteyard/Meatyard family.
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