Genealogy Chat

Thank you, i will look for the information to get certificate.

If he was adopted, because his parents were unmarried, his birth certificate should have that information added in the far right hand column.

Hi Nyx, ok i did not notice that. Thank you for pointing it out to me.

Hi Argyllgran yes maybe but i do not know.

Thank you for replies, only just noticed them, sorry.

Is it possible that Colin was adopted, but everyone was told he had died?

It may not be relevant but just in case you've not noticed it, Colin was born the qtr before parents married, I've looked for a death for Colin in mothers maiden name also just in case but nothing showing on freebmd.

Yes ok thank you :)

As GreyGhost (and others) have said, Darealjolo, East Stonehouse is a mistake, and GG is reporting it to FindMyPast, the only website which says East Stonehouse.
Bishops Stortford is correct.

I got the record from Ancestry

Name: Colin A Coulstock
Mother's Maiden Surname: Herbert
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1949
Registration district: Bishop's Strotford
Inferred County: Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Suffolk, Norfolk
Volume Number: 4b
Page Number: 21

This is the birth i have no other.

Can i add that Colin's mum married 3 times, twice to a George Atkin and once to a William Coulstock and i think he may of served, im not sure.

It's on FMP - which doesn't show the Bishop's Stortford one.

HOWEVER - if you go through to check the original it shows there as B. Stortford with no East Stonehouse anywhere near - I'll report it !! Go back to free bmd and East Stonehouse didn't even exist as an RD in 1949, it had been absorbed by Plymouth in 1937.

East Stonehouse didn't exist as a reg district after 1937.

After that it was part of Plymouth reg district.


Also, Plymouth births in 1949 are all Vol 7a.

the Bishops Stortford one is the only one on FreeBMD

the FMP devon one is an error in transcription as the back up is def Bishops Stortford

have done a correction

2 births to the Atkin/Herbert marriage 1941/2 and several Coulstock/Herbert births 1943-1952 in various parts of the country (not seeing another Coulstock/Herbert marriage)

Where are you finding that, GG?

It doesn't come up on Ancestry or FreeBMD.

AG - !!!!!!! Thought You were trying to send me round the bend ............
England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

First name(s) COLIN A
Last name COULSTOCK
Birth year 1949
Birth quarter 3
Registration month -
Mother's last name Herbert
District East Stonehouse
County Devon
Country England
Volume 4B
Page 21

This appears to be Gertrude :


Gertrude P Atkin
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005
Name: Gertrude P Atkin
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1949
Registration district: Ware
Inferred County: Hertfordshire
Spouse: Frederick W Coulstock
Volume Number: 4b
Page Number: 399


Gertrude P Herbert
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005
Name: Gertrude P Herbert
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1939
Registration district: Ware
Inferred County: Hertfordshire
Spouse: George Atkin
Volume Number: 3a
Page Number: 3051


EDIT:

But died as Atkin :

Gertrude P Atkin
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Gertrude P Atkin
Birth Date: abt 1920
Date of Registration: Jun 1961
Age at Death: 41
Registration district: Bermondsey
Inferred County: London
Volume: 5c
Page: 114

GG - Devon ??

Colin A Coulstock
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2005
Name: Colin A Coulstock
Mother's Maiden Surname: Herbert
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1949
Registration district: Bishop's Stortford
Inferred County: Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Suffolk, Norfolk
Volume Number: 4b
Page Number: 21

Colin's birth was in the East Stonehouse RD, Devon. I wonder if the Father was in the Forces - there would have been Navy, Army, Royal Marines in the area. If so, possibly the family went abroad and the child died overseas??

Shirley i never knew there was a stillbirths register as i have had a stillborn :(

kathleen no my dad is not alive. If i order the birth certificate for Colin then once arrived to contact the register office in the area when born?

If your dad is still alive then as a sibling to Colin he would be able to access the stillbirth record (if Colin was indeed stillborn) although it's unusual for a birth to be registered on the open register if it was a stillbirth.

If you order the birth certificate it might then be an idea to contact the register office nearest to the address on the certificate just in case the death WAS registered but for some reason was accidentally left off the copy list sent to the GRO.

Kath. x