The 1911 census has revealed some interesting information in relation to my GGrandparents.

The 1911 census shows them with five children including my grandmother. The census also shows they had a total of eight children between 1901, when they married, and the 1911 census.

I have attempted to establish the dates and names of the children, using BMD and parish records with partial success.

Can anyone advise if still births were:-
1. Included as dead children on the 1911 census?
2. Would both the birth and death of still born children born between 1901 and 1911 be registered?

Thanks for your help

Kind Regards

Tony Jenkins

Hi Tony

Sorry can't help with an answer, but wanted to reply so that I get notification of the answer too!!

I too have 3 missing children although I reckon some of mine may be from 1890's. I've tried every which way to find them, trawling parish records for burials, and birth/death reg's, trying to marry them all up together and so go by process of elimintaion using the records. I have found deaths/burials of children I definitely know about, but the 1911 census has thrown me too concerning the number of children recorded as died. I wonder if they have just counted stillbirths even if not registered.

Simone x

Only people alive and present in a house are ever recorded in the census. In fact if there is a resident who is not at the house on the day, they will be recorded as a visitor elsewhere. If someone had already died by the day of the census then they would not be recorded in it.

Yes thanks, understand that :) It is just the numbers really, not the people actually recorded. If someone has recorded that they had 15 children, 6 still living, and you could not account for 3 of the dead ones by working through and tying up birth/death and burial records, could it be that the person completing the census may have included stillbirths in their numbers, although it does say children born alive. Suppose it is a difficult one to know really :( If a stillbirth was incorrectly recorded in number of children born then it wouldn't be checked anyway would it, so people could put what number they liked really. Perhaps they have made a mistake in numbers.

Simone x