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== General Register Office - Historical Background == | == General Register Office - Historical Background == | ||
Before 1837 only churches recorded birth, marriage, and death information in England (see [[England Church Records]]). In the early 1800s, Parliament recognized the need for accurate records for voting, planning, taxation, and defense purposes. Legislation was passed to create a civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths for England and Wales and, for registering the same for British subjects abroad. England and Wales registration began on 1 July 1837 and for British subjects, abroad, some records returned to England begin as early as 1790. For brief list of all those registers of births, marriages and deaths affecting British subjects abroad, see under Civil Registration of British Abroad (below). | Before 1837 only churches recorded birth, marriage, and death information in England (see [[England Church Records]]). In the early 1800s, Parliament recognized the need for accurate records for voting, planning, taxation, and defense purposes. Legislation was passed to create a civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths for England and Wales and, for registering the same for British subjects abroad. England and Wales registration began on 1 July 1837 and for British subjects, abroad, some records returned to England begin as early as 1790. For brief list of all those registers of births, marriages and deaths affecting British subjects abroad, see under Civil Registration of British Abroad (below).<br> | ||
=== <u>'''Civil Registration in England and Wales'''</u><br> === | === <u>'''Civil Registration in England and Wales'''</u><br> === | ||
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{{Wikipedia|General Register Office}} Beginning in July 1837, registrars were required to register all births and deaths in their district. Since they were paid for every registration, that was incentive to make sure all births and deaths were recorded. An estimated 90 to 95 percent of births and nearly all deaths and marriages were reported. A new registration Act in 1874 placed the responsibility on parents to inform the registrar of all births, but this made no discernible difference to the rate of registration, which by 1875 was around 99 percent. If you cannot find a birth, marriage, or death record in civil registration, search church records. | {{Wikipedia|General Register Office}} Beginning in July 1837, registrars were required to register all births and deaths in their district. Since they were paid for every registration, that was incentive to make sure all births and deaths were recorded. An estimated 90 to 95 percent of births and nearly all deaths and marriages were reported. A new registration Act in 1874 placed the responsibility on parents to inform the registrar of all births, but this made no discernible difference to the rate of registration, which by 1875 was around 99 percent. If you cannot find a birth, marriage, or death record in civil registration, search church records. | ||
{{see also|General Register Office for England and Wales}} | {{see also|General Register Office for England and Wales}} | ||
=== <u>Civil Registration of British Abroad</u><br> === | |||
In addition, the General Register Office, or The Registrar General, and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, a few years ago conferred over to the Overseas Registration Section at Smedley Hydro, Southport in Merseyside several significant records collection series, which included: | |||
*Civil registrations of Births, Marriages and Deaths (Foreign Office or FO) of English Subjects in Foreign Countries or otherwise known as Consular registers(from 1849) | |||
*Miscellaneous Foreign Returns of births, marriages and deaths (RG32). See: [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details/C13368-details Indexes to Miscellaneous Foreign Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths] | |||
*[http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ Miscellaneous Foreign Marriages (RG34)] | |||
*[http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ Miscellaneous Foreign Deaths (RG35)] | |||
*[http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ Foreign Registers and Returns (RG33)] | |||
*[http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in Protectorates (RG36)] | |||
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== Information Recorded in Civil Registers == | == Information Recorded in Civil Registers == | ||