Guernsey Civil Registration

HM Greffier,
The Royal Court House,
St Peter Port,
GY1 2PB,
Guernsey,
Channel Islands.

Office Hours 9a.m.- 5p.m.

They charge £5 for a full certificate or £3 for a short certificate and there is an additional search fee of £5.

If you are in Guernsey, this charge can be alleviated as there is public access to the Strong Room between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. for a nominal £1 charge and details can be copied from their records.

The indexes and certificates are available on microfilm through the Family History Library for the following time periods:

Guernsey Civil Registration on FHL Microfilm

Event	Indexes	Certificates
Birth	1840-1966	1840-1907   Mas to Mh are missing from index
Marriage	1840-1966	1840-1901
Death	1840-1963	1840-1907

The Priaulx Library also have the indexes on microfilm.

Note: Guernsey Marriages in the Established Church were not subject to Civil Registration until 1919 - so the coverage is incomplete prior to that date. Use the Parish Registers (Gap 1875-1907) instead.

Gibson, Jeremy and Elizabeth Hampson. Marriage and Census Indexes for Family History Historians. Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2001 WorldCat 46853206  FHL 942 D27gjh contains entries of where to find marriage registers in the Channel Islands.

Alderney

For Births, Deaths from 1850, Marriages from 1886 contact:

The Greffier,
Registry for Births, Deaths, Companies, Land and Marriages
St Anne,
Alderney,
GY9 3AA,
Channel Islands.

For Births from 1850 - (missing May 1871 - Dec 1874): There is a hand-ruled book of declarations, from August 1850 to December 1874, that can be used to fill this gap.

For Deaths from August 1850-1855 and 1907 onwards: Hand-ruled book of declarations from October 1855 to December 1874. (Gap 1875-1907).

For Marriages from 1886 (from St Anne's Church) and 1891 onwards from elsewhere on the Island.

In Guernsey: Births, Deaths and Marriages from 1925 to date only.

The Priaulx Library in Guernsey has incomplete microfilmed sets of Civil Registration records.

Alderney Greffe Records: Consists of Births July 1850 - July 1857, July 1857 - July 1860, July 1860 - August 1885; Deaths 1850-1866, 1907-1925.

Sark

Birth, Death and Marriages records from 1925 can be found at:

The Greffe,
Las Chasse Marette,
Sark
GY9 0SF,
Guernsey,
Channel Islands.

The Greffe's office hours are 2-4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday

and at:

H.M. Greffier,
The Royal Court House,
St Peter Port,
GY1 2PB
Guernsey,
Channel Islands

Office Hours 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Family History Library (FHL); now called, FamilySearch Library (FSL)