I am looking into birth registrations of the children of a relative of mine. Their surname is Middleton and their mother's maiden name Wheeldon. They were born in Leicester. Bizarrely, on Ancestry, their records in the birth list no forename, just the surname Middleton. When clicking on the actual record, one is listed under an asterisk at the bottom of the file as "MIDDLETON, (Female)"; on the other it is not at the bottom of the page or asterisked but again says "MIDDLETON, (Female)".
They have a brother, Stephen P Middleton, whose birth is registered normally, as one would expect, in 1952. One of these females is completely unknown to us, but one of them should be Jennifer Middleton (I'm unsure which year), but she is nameless. Even stranger still, one of these nameless females was born in October 1953 and the other April 1954, which is biologically impossible.
I am baffled by this. Can anyone solve the riddle? Why would a baby be registered with no first name at all? These are not stillbirths or newborn deaths. Jennifer is/was known to some relatives in her adulthood. I just can't work this out. Thanks in advance.