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From: Heather <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] Freebmd/GRO (was Which subscription?)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:57:14 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <001b01c96ac4$df4512b0$9dcf3810$@bradford@btinternet.com>


Perfectly correct Caroline :-)
An age thing you know........... forgot the difference between registration of births, marriages and deaths :-(
Best regards
Heather


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--- On Tue, 30/12/08, Caroline Bradford <> wrote:



Just to clarify the precise situation, registration *was* compulsory from 1
July 1837. The registration of marriages took place at the same time as the
wedding itself, and was registered by the vicar (if it was a CofE church) or
the Registrar (either at a non CofE place of worship or at the Register
Office if the marriage took place there). In the case of births and deaths,
it was the responsibility of the parent of the child, or the occupier of the
house in which a death occurred, to provide the Registrar with the relevant
information about the event. But, as Heather correctly points out, it was
the Registrar's responsibility to ensure that all the information was
collected. Some Registrars were less than scrupulous about their duties and
a percentage of births particularly got missed (deaths tended to get chased
up because undertakers were nervous about burying someone without a
certificate).





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