BIRTH CERTIFICATE.....

subell · Post by **subell** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:48 pm

IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WHO CAN HELP ME ? I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT INFORMATION ON A BIRTH CERTIFICATE WITHOUT COMING UP TO SCOTLAND. IT IS REGARDING A WILLIAM HENRY BELL. MOTHER SUSAN BELL HOUSEKEEPER IN QUARRYHEAD.
WILLIAM WAS BORN DECEMBER 25TH 1915 THERE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A NAME FOR THE FATHER ON THE RECORD THAT I HAVE FOUND. I WOULD BE EXTREMLY GRATEFUL IF THERE'S SOMEONE WHO COULD PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY.

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:31 pm

Hi Subell
...and a warm welcome to Talking Scot

1915 is too late to search online, but you can send for a copy of a birth certificate from GRO. See this page for information:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/famrec/bdm.html

As you seem to have an exact date, it should be fairly straight forward. You mention that there is no father on the copy you have. I'm not sure if what you have is an official copy or something someone has noted down, in which case it would seem a good idea to see a copy of the original. Often, if no father is mentioned, that could imply that the child was illegitimate.

Best wishes
Lesley

p.s. you have another William Bell in your other post, born about the same time - can you just clarifiy, is he the same one, or a different one?
JJ

subell · Post by **subell** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:46 am

Hello Lesley,

Thanks for your reply. Just to clarify it is the same William that I am looking for, in the two posts. I am hoping that someone might recognise William in their family. they probably won't though I've been looking now for about 3 years, and I've yet to get any joy.
Never mind hey, I'll just keep trying.

Thanks again

Susan

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:33 am

Just to expand on a comment by Lesley.

If there was no father shown on the original birth register entry, then the only way that any addition could be made was via an entry in the Register of Corrected Entries.

Such an RCE entry might relate to the result of a paternity action in the Sheriff Court. If you order an extract from GROS his name will be inserted on the extract that you receive as if it had been there from the beginning, with no indication that this is additional information added at a later date via the RCE procedure. In addition the word illegitimate is not used these days!

In that scenario the only was to see an original 1915 register entry is to visit NRH in Edinburgh or one of the increasing number of places around Scotland that link into the GROS computer system.

David

nelmit · Post by **nelmit** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:28 pm

Hello Susan,

I had a look at William's birth entry today but it only has his mother's name as you thought. No RCE to give a clue as to who the father is.

Regards,
Annette M