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Series
General Register Office: Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages: Correspondence...
Catalogue reference: RG 48
What's it about?
RG 48
This series relates to the Registrar General's responsibility to interpret, administer and enforce statutory requirements for the registration of births, deaths and marriages, and (from 1926) adoptions, and to regulate the work of local...
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 48
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1874-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series relates to the Registrar General's responsibility to interpret, administer and enforce statutory requirements for the registration of births, deaths and marriages, and (from 1926) adoptions, and to regulate the work of local registrars. It mostly comprises files about individual cases and includes opinions of the legal advisers of the Ministry of Health.
Includes original minutes by Sir Sylvanus P Vivian, Registrar General 1921-1945, and opinions given by the Legal Adviser at the Ministry of Health, in addition to more general correspondence. Also covers consular and HM Forces registration from 1914-1972.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The file references include a date element, the final two numbers being the year in which the file was created. RG 48/1-3289 are arranged by subject and then numerical order within each year.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Papers relating to the organisation of the local registration service are to be found in MH 19
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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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3379 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1985 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
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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
- Population
- Census
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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 law relating to registration has been much supplemented and amended since 1836. It is now governed by the Marriage Act 1949, the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 and the Registration Service Act 1953.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13373/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: RG
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General Register Office: Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages: Correspondence and Papers
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