GRO birth index 1936

The family story goes that at the end of her 4th pregnancy in the
1930s my grandmother, determined that this time there should be proper
discussion before registering the names of her twins, had a minion at
the birth ready to rush off and register them as male and female.

So when I went to Somerset House around 1958 to get a b'certificate
for my aunt, I wasn't surprised to find them as male and female..

Loking at the index again (thanks to Ancestry), I am interested that

(a) although born Friday 27 March, they appear in the 2nd quarter
volume - which suggests that they weren't registered Friday 27, Monday
30 or Tuesday 31 March, casting some doubt on "rushing off" from the
birth (Easter was two weeks later);

(b) I don't recollect seeing their names in the index - but they are
there now, written in next to the typed words male and female, which
have been crossed through.

Am I correct in thinking that if they had been registered on or before
31 March they would have been in the 1st quarter volume?

Charani...

In theory, yes, but I've found, in the research I've done on my
family, that there some events registered as early as the 20th of the
last month in a quarter can appear in the following quarter.

myths...

Thanks for saving the family legend, even if my memory is beyond hope

Charani...

You're welcome :))

Charani...

Nowt I can do to help you there, I'm afraid. My forgetter is in
better fettle than my remember these days ;))

My sister was born on 14 June and her birth registered within a week
of her birth, yet she's in the September quarter.

Must the handwritten amendments have been there in 1958, and I just
didn't remember? (Possibly because finding the entries for which I
had paid to search was nothing like as exciting as forbidden glances
at the older handwritten volumes that I had not paid to see.)

Charani...

Quite possibly they were there but the forbidden glances overrode the
memory of the handwritten amendments.

I used to do the same thing ;))