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Series
General Register Office: Marriage Act 1898: Registers of Authorised Persons
Catalogue reference: RG 42
What's it about?
RG 42
Registers of persons appointed to register non-conformist marriages in certified places of worship.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RG 42
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Marriage Act 1898: Registers of Authorised Persons
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Date (When the record was created)
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1899-1931
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registers of persons appointed to register non-conformist marriages in certified places of worship.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The system of indexing appears to have changed before 1931 - the index relates only to the first three pieces but there are omissions. In addition to particulars of an Authorised Person and the registered building with which he was connected, the entries in the registers, arranged in numerical order of appointment, also record the registration number of the building. These two numbers appear against a person's name in the index (the registered building number is imposed above that of the appointment), thus enabling an individual to be traced in the registers.
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- General Register Office, 1836-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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10 volume(s)
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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
- Marriage and divorce
- Population
- Census
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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April 1899 to December 1931
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The 1836 Marriage Act made provision for the registration, for the solemnization of marriages, of any building certified as a place of religious worship. A registrar of marriages had to attend and register the marriage. To give non-conformist bodies the same rights as enjoyed by the Established Church, Quakers and Jews, the Marriage Act 1898 provided for the appointment (by the governing body of a registered building) of an authorised person in whose presence the marriage had to be solemnized and by whom it had to be registered.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13367/
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General Register Office: Marriage Act 1898: Registers of Authorised Persons
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