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Resources[edit | edit source]
Online Resources[edit | edit source]
- 1790-1854 : Sir Charles Lucas, ed., The Pitcairn Island Register Book, (New York and Toronto: The MacMillan Co., 1929), pages 31-92. Includes information about birth, marriages, and deaths
- 1792-1963 : Pitcairn Island. Civil recorder, Register, 1792-1963, images, FamilySearch (free)
- 1800-1960 : Parish registers (cemetery records) of Pitcairn Island at FamilySearch; index & images, often includes information about birth, death, names of parents and spouses
Offices to Contact[edit | edit source]
Pitcairn Islands Official Site
P.O. Box 105 696
Auckland
New Zealand
Telephone: +64 9 366 0186
Fax: +64 9 366 0187
Email: admin@pitcairn.gov.pn
Background[edit | edit source]
Pitcairn Island is part of the United Kingdom with a "Governor whose offices are in Wellington, New Zealand." A Commissioner "handles most on-going, practical matters for Pitcairn" but is located in Auckland, New Zealand.
"On Pitcairn Island there is the Island Council which meets with the island’s Mayor...." "Under ideal circumstances the Council is in complete charge of governing the island locally."[1]
"With a population of only around fifty, the people of Pitcairn are descended from the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and their Tahitian companions."[2]
Coverage and Compliance[edit | edit source]
Information Recorded in the Records[edit | edit source]
Birth Records[edit | edit source]
- Name of child
- Date of birth
- Names of parents
Marriage Records[edit | edit source]
- Names of bride and groom
- Date of marriage
- Sometimes names of parents
Death Records[edit | edit source]
- Name of deceased
- Date of death or burial
- Place of death or burial
- Sometimes names of parents or spouse
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Pacific Union College, The Pitcairn Island Government, [History of Government & Laws, (accessed 21 February 2023).
- ↑ The Government of the Pitcairn Islands, Official Site, (accessed 21 February 2023).