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General Register Office: Birth Certificates from the Presbyterian, Independent and...
Catalogue reference: RG 5
What's it about?
RG 5
Original parchment and paper certificates from which the entries in the registers of births from the Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist registry at Dr Williams' Library were compiled, and the parchment certificates recorded in the registers of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RG 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Birth Certificates from the Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist Registry and from the Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1742-1840
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Description (What the record is about)
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Original parchment and paper certificates from which the entries in the registers of births from the Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist registry at Dr Williams' Library were compiled, and the parchment certificates recorded in the registers of births and baptisms from the Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry.
Electronic images of these records can be searched online through our partner website.
These paper certificates are a late example of the many attempts to make such nonconformist registration legally acceptable prior to the 1836 Births and Deaths Registration Act.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The parchment certificates of the Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry bear numbers corresponding to the numbers of the entries in the registers. The particulars in the paper certificates from Dr Williams' Library were entered alphabetically in the registers, each entry giving reference to the number of the certificate. The registers themselves therefore serve as indexes to these certificates.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a means of reference to the Methodist certificates see RG 4
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Dr Williams Library, 1742-1865
- General Register Office, 1836-1970
- Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist Registry, 1742-1837
- Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry, 1818-1838
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 207 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Available in digital format
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Religions
- Population
- Census
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13330/
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