Scotland Civil Registration: Difference between revisions

Every parish in Scotland (beginning with the parishes in Shetland in the north and working south through Wigtonshire) has had a number assigned to it to assist with the organizing of records.  When civil registration began in 1855, the civil parishes also became civil registration districts, and they had the same identification numbers.  The numbers are used to identify parishes in civil, church, and census records.  However, in large populated areas, it was necessary for the districts to be sub-divided, and the identification numbers were also sub-divided.  For instance, the civil parish and district of Glasgow, Lanarkshire has the number of 644.  When the districts were created in 1855, an area of Glasgow called High Church was created as a separate district and given the number of 644/2, indicating that it is part of the greater Glasgow area.