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So sad

But I found her

Born:GRO= Registered F/Q 1921 Wandsworth V.1d p.1273 (Stillborn Baby)

Died:GRO= Registered F/Q 1921 Wandsworth V.1d p.688

Is there any more info I can find out??
i.e. Was she Christened
Where she is buried

Anyone know please ???

Its very unusual for a stillborn to be registerd. If she took just a few breaths she wouldnt be classed a stillborn and so could be registered.
The registrar must have been very understanding.

I,m afraid you may not find a burial unless her parents insisted .
If she was born in Hospital it was the norm to put a baby in the coffin of an unrelated adult who was awaiting burial.

The only thing you could try is to get the death cert and give the local council a ring ,giving them all the details ,and they may find a burial for her in their records

Shirley

If their is a birth cert and a death cert then the child was not stillborn, but lived to take at least a single breath, the stillbirth register was started about 1927

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/stillbirths/

If you buy the death cert for the reference you have (above) it will tell you what the child died of

Roy

Hello Shirley

It was my understanding that she was stillborn from the family knowledge

My mother had a baby that was strangled by the cord at birth but he still had Birth cert & death cert

and has you have just confirmed above about being put in somebody's coffin is what my father was told when he tried to find his first borns final resting place, he was away with the army at time,


Is there anyway of finding out who's coffin she went in??

I,m afraid possibly not. The Hospital record may be around but may be closed due to the 75or 100 yr rules. A local Funeral director may have a record but you would need to ring around to all the possible ones in that area.

Shirley

Porkie Pie

Thank you for that info

Just looked at my brothers birth cert and you are right it is a Certified copy of an entry of Still-Birth

I did not really notice that before

I have no certs for Baby Annie as yet !

Thank you for that Shirley

I think I know who the family undertaker was then, I have a few undertaker invoices

One I have here states

For the funeral of the late Thomas Broom age 32yrs

A polished elm coffin fitted with three pairs of brass handles, lid ornament & brass plate of inscription , The inside lined with swansdown.

Motor hearse and two motor broughams to convey deceased and relatives from home address to cemetery.

Bearers & personal attendance, including cemetery fee.

£12.15.00

Unreal isn't it !!!

hi try contatcing the local council cemetary service. My grandad had a baby sister that died after one minute.The lovely person at the council looked up for me and found out that she was buried in an old burial site of an 80 year old man who was no relative to her-more than 50 years afetr his death-and even gave me a map of the cemetary so i could try and find it.It was not marked but it was nice to know she had existed and had been given a proper burial.

I just had a thought !!

You could not even buy the brass inscription plate for that let alone all the rest nowadays

Crougar

Hello Fairy

Thats just what I intend to do hopefully

Thank you

I am keeping a list of locations & must do's to for other deceased family members as I am sure their burial places will not be far apart !

This is Horrible !!!!

There is not even a space on this still-born cert for the baby's first name !!!!

That is terrible.............

Hi again

Well the funeral director would be the one of the Adult she was buried with not neccesarily the funeral director that your family used. I know that our family alawys used the CO-OP but there are others in the same area. Families tend to go with the one that family always used.

I was reading your GRO ref that the ref was there to the child being stillborn, If that was your understanding but not in the ref then the child wasnt stillborn.


Shirley

Yes Shirley

I think you are right!