Infant death 1900 to 1911 (General)

by Simone , Sunday, September 04, 2011, 16:22 (4882 days ago) @ rookancestrybest

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