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General Register Office: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to...
Catalogue reference: RG 8
What's it about?
RG 8
Registers of birth, baptisms, death, burials and marriages which were collected by the Non-Parochial Registers Commissioners of 1857, or which were later deposited for safe custody at the General Register Office and the Public Record Office. Some...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RG 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to the Non Parochial Registers Commission of 1857, and other registers and church records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1646-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registers of birth, baptisms, death, burials and marriages which were collected by the Non-Parochial Registers Commissioners of 1857, or which were later deposited for safe custody at the General Register Office and the Public Record Office. Some of these registers were authenticated by the Commissioners, and are marked to that effect: others were left unauthenticated because they arrived at the General Register Office after the Commission was dissolved. Some may have been refused authentication by the Commissioners. Among the more extensive collections in this series are the registers of the British Lying-in Hospital, Holborn, which record particulars of births and baptisms; registers of burials in the Victoria Park Cemetery, the New Burial Ground, Southwark, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, Hackney, and the Bethnal Green Protestant Dissenters Burying Ground; registers of Chapels Royal at St James's Palace, Whitehall and Windsor Castle.
The rest of the series contains the archive of the Russian Orthodox Church in London, 1721-1927. The records include not only registers of births, marriages, deaths and conversions, but also comprehensive general records on the day-to-day workings of the church. The usual language is Russian, with some Greek; there are a few documents such as certificates, letters and passports in English, French and German.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
This series comprises a general sequence including non-parochial registers (RG 8/1-110 and RG 8/305-315) and a sequence for records relating to the Russian Orthodox Church in London (RG 8/111-304).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further records relating to the Chapel Royal see PRO 30/19
Some complementary registers are deposited in the Guildhall Library.
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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)
- Miscellaneous
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Bethnal Green Protestant Dissenters Burial Ground, London, 1793-1793
- Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, Hackney, London, 1713-1713
- Chapel Royal, St James Palace, London, 1540-1540
- Chapel Royal, Whitehall, London, 1540-1540
- Chapel Royal, Windsor Castle, Windsor, 1525-1525
- New Burial Ground, Southwark, London, 1840-1840
- Victoria Park Cemetery, London, 1853-1853
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 315 volume(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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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General Register Office
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13333/
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