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Series
General Register Office: Certificate Application Section: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: RG 49
What's it about?
RG 49
The series relates to the General Register Office's function of supplying certified copies of birth, marriage and death entries. It also includes files relating to the administration of the public search room, access to population census returns,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RG 49
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Certificate Application Section: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1922-1982
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series relates to the General Register Office's function of supplying certified copies of birth, marriage and death entries. It also includes files relating to the administration of the public search room, access to population census returns, and the removal of monuments and tombstones from burial grounds.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 56 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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)
- From 1948
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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 Registration Act 1836 allowed for the keeping at the General Register Office of indexes of births, deaths and marriages, to be available for public inspection, so that certified copies of entries could be made for payment.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13374/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
206,531 records
Within the department: RG
Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and...
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General Register Office: Certificate Application Section: Correspondence and Papers
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