Marry who? where?

Registering a Marriage
Death - select 'UK Certificates'

Arrangement of the indexes

What's on a  certificate?

Archaeic Medical Terms

Civil registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths began in England and Wales on the 1st July 1837.
In Scotland on 1st January  1855 and Ireland on 1st January  1864.
Isle of Man births and deaths in 1878, marriages in 1884.  Jersey 1842
Guernsey, Jehou & Herm 1840
Alderney, births and deaths in 1850, marriages 1886.
Sark deaths since 1915, births and marriages since 1925.
Registrations area was based on the Poor Law Unions,  in charge of Superintendent Registrars.  Sub-districts in charge of a Registrar.
1837 to 1874, local Registrars were required to travel to record births within 42 days and deaths within 5. 
After 1875 people could be fined for not registering.
In the early years it has been estimated that in some areas as many as 20% of births were not registered

The indexes are available on microfiches at some Public Libraries - Familia
Local registrars keep their own indexes so references cannot be transferred.
A search in a local index may prove useful if an entry cannot be found.

Registration districts (1901)

Index of Places

Map of Registration Disticts
between 1837 and 1851

IHGS Registration District maps to buy

FreeBMD  aims to provide free Internet access to the Civil Registration index information for England and Wales.
By November 2010  there were 192,776,782 unique records
Images of the pages can be displayed
Age at death/DOB search.

The UK BDM Exchange.  Reqires registration.

WILLS

The Court Service  provides copies of 1858 wills.