m (Text replacement - "FreeBMD]. ==== Church Records ====" to "FreeBMD]. === Church Records ===") |
m (Text replacement - "=== Resources === ==== Civil Registration ====" to "== Resources == === Civil Registration ===") |
||
| Line 38: | Line 38: | ||
SWINDON (St. Lawrence), a '''parish''', in the union and hundred of Cheltenham, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 1½ mile (N. N. W.) from Cheltenham. The Cheltenham and Tewkesbury road and the Bristol and Birmingham railway, pass through the parish. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51323#s19 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 286-289.''] Date accessed: 04 February 2013.</ref> | SWINDON (St. Lawrence), a '''parish''', in the union and hundred of Cheltenham, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 1½ mile (N. N. W.) from Cheltenham. The Cheltenham and Tewkesbury road and the Bristol and Birmingham railway, pass through the parish. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51323#s19 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 286-289.''] Date accessed: 04 February 2013.</ref> | ||
== Resources == | |||
=== Civil Registration === | |||
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The [[England Civil Registration|civil registration]] article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is [http://freebmd.org.uk/ FreeBMD]. | Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The [[England Civil Registration|civil registration]] article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is [http://freebmd.org.uk/ FreeBMD]. | ||
edits