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The General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO) is the section of the United Kingdom HM Passport Office responsible for the civil registration of births (including stillbirths), adoptions, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths in England and Wales and for those same events outside the UK if they involve a UK citizen and qualify to be registered in various miscellaneous registers.
The Births and Deaths Registration Acts 1836 to 1874 is the collective title of the following Acts: [1] The Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836 ( 6 & 7 Will. 4 . c.
FreeBMD is a website which coordinates and provides free transcriptions of the indexes to births, marriages and deaths (BMD) registrations held by the General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO). It also provides a free search function and online access to images of the pages of the BMD indexes. The website was founded in 1998.
In 1875, the Births & Deaths Act 1874 came into force, whereby those present at a birth or death were required to report the event. [24] Subsequent legislation introduced similar systems in Ireland (all of which was then part of the United Kingdom) on 1 April 1845 for Protestant marriages and on 1 January 1864 for all birth, marriage and death ...
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Registration was not compulsory until 1875, following the Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1874, which made registration of a birth the responsibility of those present at the birth. [90] When a birth is registered, the details are entered into the register book at the local register office for the district in which the birth took place and ...
English: An Act to amend the Law relating to the Registration of Births and Deaths in England, and to consolidate the Law respecting the Registration of Births and Deaths at Sea. Publication date 7 August 1874
As a result the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836 (6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 86) was passed that ordered the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales. This took effect from 1 July 1837. A General Register Office was set up in London and the office of Registrar General was established.