Two birth certificates Was Unnamed child

Hi, My husband must be one of the luckiest adoptee that I know. Back in 1942 in Victoria, his birth mother called him John, fortunately his adoptive parents were going to call him that anyway because that was the name of his "to be grandfather".

We have his original birth certificate which names his birth mother and his adoptive birth certificate which shows adoptive parents names. So he has two birth certificates.

Regards, -- Di Maloney Please remove 1 from email address to reply direct. Often children were registered before the parents had decided on a name so you have Unnamed Male-Female, in my research I have found a lot of children were not given a name when registered. In Victoria no stillborn child was ever registered. I have seen one stillbirth registered and then it was crossed out and the deputy registrar wrote a note explaining the rest was incorrectly registered. I don't think the registration of stillbirths came in until the 1980's. Then it had to be past so many weeks, meaning if the infant had been born alive it had a chance of survival. Pre the 1980 if a child lived for two hours its birth was supposed to be registered, but often if the child died only the rest appeared. Dianne Hughes