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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 27,883 Send Message	DIZZI	Report	27 Dec 2010 17:43
	HI BARRY MY TWIN WAS A STILLBIRTH,A COUPLEOF YEARS AGO I APPLYED FOR THE CERT. THE DAY BEFORE MY 59th BIRTHDAY THE GRO PHONED ,THEY WERE VERY SORRY BUT NO REGISTRATION COULD BE FOUND, THEY HAD MADE A FULL SEARCH, BUT BENG A HOME BIRTH,ONLY I WAS REGISTERED DIZZ
	Researching: FINCH+LOCK+WEAVER+HALES+BROOKINGS+MANSFIELD+HOOK+TITCHENER and STEVEN & ISRAEL WEAVER c1735
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 36,149 Send Message	Rambling	Report	27 Dec 2010 15:25
	This, quoted from a thread, may help you Barry "The best way to find stillbirths prior to 1927 is to check burial registers. Many vicars recorded the burials of stillbirths in the burial register even as far back as the 17th century."
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Member Since: November 2009 Posts: 1 Send Message	Barry	Report	27 Dec 2010 14:42
Member Since: November 2009 Posts: 1 Send Message	I am very new to this and wondered if stillborn children were recorded in Births and death? If not would there be a record anywhere.