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Channel Islands

Civil Registration

See A guide to Civil and Parish Registers and Census records at the Priaulx Library.

How to Find the Records

Online Collections

• 1638-1838 : Transcripts of the digest copy of the registers of births, marriages and burials, 1638-1838 Society of Friends
• 1820-1907 : Channel Islands Births and Baptisms, 1820-1907, index, incomplete.
• 1820-1907 : Channel Islands, Select Births and Baptisms, 1820-1907, index, incomplete, ($).
• 1820-1907 : Channel Islands Births & Baptisms, 1820-1907, index, incomplete, ($).
• 1820-1907 : Channel Islands, Births and Baptisms, 1820-1907, index, incomplete, ($)
• 1787-1933 : United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933, index..
• The Island Wiki, birth/baptism, marriage and death/burials records database, index, complete.

Historical Background

"Channel Islands" is a geographical term, not a political unit. The islands "...include two Crown dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islands."

If you can supply the names and index reference numbers the fee for supplying an extract from the records is £20 per certificate. Please include postage and handling fee: U.K. 50p, Europe £1, elsewhere £2.

If you do not have the reference number and research is required, this is charged as follows: Searching for a Birth or Death covering a five-year period is £10, searching for a Marriage covering a five-year period is £20. Fees for extracts and research are payable by sterling cheque drawn on a British Bank in favour of the ‘Treasurer of the States’, or by British Postal Order. Source: Channel Islands Family History Society

Guernsey

HM Greffier, The Royal Court House, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 2PB. Office Hours 9a.m.-5p.m. aulx

They charge 5 pounds for a full certificate or 3 pound for a short certificate.  A search fee of 5 pound is additional.
If you are in Guernsey, this charge can be alleviated as there is public access to the Strong Room between 2p.m. and 4p.m. for a nominal 1 pound charge and details can be copied from their records.

The Priaulx Library also have the indexes on microfilm. www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/
Note: Guernsey Marriages were not subject to Civil Registration until 1919 - so the coverage is incomplete prior to that date.  Go to the Parish Registers. Gap 1875-1907. instead.

FHL 942.D27gih "Marriage and Census Indexes for Family History Historians."  Contains entries of where to find marriage registers in Channel Islands and all United Kingdom. Available only at Salt Lake Family History Library

Vital Records Index British Isles including Channel Islands from 1538-1888 on CD.  Available at most Family History Libraries and Genealogy Societies. The Civil registration death records for Guernsey give parents names including mother's maiden name.  They ahve been filmed and availabe at the Family History Libraries.  There are two ways to searchm by the indexes or by the actual entries which means crolling through them all.

Alderney

Births, Deaths from 1850, Marriages from 1886
The Greffier, Registry for Births, Deaths, Companies, Land and Marriages, St Anne, Alderney GY9 3AA is custodian.
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.
Deaths from August 1850-1855, 1907 onwards.  Hand-ruled book of declarations from October 1855 to December 1874.
Gap 1875-1907.
Marriages from 1886 (from St Anne's Church).  1891 onwards from elsewhere on the Island.
In Guernsey 
Births, Deaths and Marriages from 1925 to date only.

The Priaulx Library  Candie, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1UG have incomplete microfilmed sets of Civil Registration records. See A guide to Civil and Parish Registers and Census records at the Priaulx Library

Alderney Greffe Records

Births July 1850-July1857, July 1857-July1860, July 1860-August 1885.
Deaths 1850-1866, 1907-1925.

Sark

Birth, Death and Marraiges records from 1925 can be found at The Greffe, Las Chasse Marette, Sark GY9 0SF. The Greffe's office hours are 2-4p.m. Tuesday.Wednesday & Friday and at H.M. Greffier, The Royal Court House, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 2PB.  Office Hours 9a.m.-5p.m.

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