The Secret Registrar
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Births, Deaths, Marriages, Tears, Drama. Repeat daily.
A baby called Harriet. Such a lovely change from Bambi and Teddy 😁
3 days ago
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Oh to have such a picturesque Autumnal wedding. The reality is somewhat different 😆
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about 1 month ago
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I wish everyone could die peacefully in their sleep aged 101, knowing they had loved and were loved, surrounded by their family, having lived a long and happy life.
about 2 months ago
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Seriously, please stop calling twins the same first name. Just stop. Yet again today.
about 2 months ago
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Child death registrations are so painful 😥 I have to hold it together and concentrate very hard on making sure it’s accurate, while exuding empathy and kindness. I sit exhausted after every one.
about 2 months ago
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Age 106. Apparently, she slept well, lived well and prayed hard. I love when it’s clearly been a beautiful life well lived 😁
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2 months ago
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Registering stillbirths and infant deaths is the hardest part of my job. Anything that makes this less frequent just needs to happen…
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More infant deaths linked to cousin marriage than substance abuse — The Telegraph
Data analysis reveals 73 fatalities linked to close relative union, with only 27 related to substance misuse in pregnancy
https://apple.news/AGDt-ZAOQTD-2XjnJv_O37Q
2 months ago
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I’ll give you a great name for a simple glass of nice Malbec 🍷
2 months ago
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Twins with the same first name… I can’t say no, but it’s really tough to say anything positive about it 😆 It’s going to cause those children a world of problems.
2 months ago
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Frank Ray Whitehouse (He/Him)
4 months ago
Some baby names may be trendy one day, but you need to take a step back and ask are people going to know the backstory to Arya, Kylie, Shakira etc Other names may not be so “cool” now but they have a timeless quality that will never age, as I tried to explain to my son Rumpelstiltskin.
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It’s been a day of weddings! Seven to be precise. One after the other…. But each one special and had my complete focus to make it perfect. To conduct marriages is such a pleasure and a privilege. And I’m smiling knowing that there’s all these weddings parties just getting going this evening 😆
4 months ago
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The youngest person I registered the death of today was heartbreakingly just two hours old. The oldest person I registered the death of today was gloriously 105.
4 months ago
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Ian H
4 months ago
And it's a fundamental misunderstanding of how statistics work. 2 Muslim parents name their baby Muhammed. 1000 "non Muslim" parents give their baby 1000 different names. Most popular name is Muhammed. What does that prove?
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Sylvia/Sylvie. It’s not as unique as the parents think. I registered three in a row yesterday 🤦🏻♀️
#babynames
4 months ago
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Ian Kremer
5 months ago
Who we are on the inside is not always how we are viewed on the outside.
#poetry
#Alzheimers
#dementia
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It is tough when your day registering deaths has someone who has lived (well) over 100 years, and someone who has lived only one hour. A day of extremes. A day to ponder the meaning of life. A day to be both professional and kind.
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For the second time recently, I registered twins with the exact same first name. I advised against it and it probably will cause issues… but the parent was insistent 🤦🏻♀️
7 months ago
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Dave Annal Lifelines Research
9 months ago
A reminder that, under the terms of the 1696 'Act for the enforcing the Laws which restrain Marriages without Licence or Banns, and for the better registring Marriages, Births, and Burials', the births of all children were supposed to be registered, whether the child was baptised or not...
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This is the stuff I live for 😁 I’ve only had one bigamist myself, but it’s good to spot them!
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8 months ago
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“We want to be unique.” However there are now more baby Issacs I have registered than baby Isaacs. Why won’t the parents believe me when I gently mention it’s not the usual spelling and may be mispronounced? 😂
9 months ago
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The last sentence is particularly heartbreaking as it means the message is just not getting through. Some still births and baby deaths are utterly preventable:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Cousin marriage: The new evidence about children's ill health
A major study has found first cousin-parentage may have wider consequences than previously thought.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c241pn09qqjo
10 months ago
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If you’re going to call your baby Bambi…. Well, just go for it I guess 😆
#babynames
about 1 year ago
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I think it’s the mark of democracy that we can name our children what we wish (unless it would cause universal disgust! In which case we can refuse). Some choices may be daft… but what would registrars lives be like if we didn’t have daft baby names to laugh over?
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about 1 year ago
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