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General Register Office Circulars: Various subjects Births and Deaths Registration...
Catalogue reference: RG 41/41
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This record is about the General Register Office Circulars: Various subjects Births and Deaths Registration... dating from 1947 in the series General Register Office: Circulars. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RG 41/41
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1947
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Description (What the record is about)
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General Register Office Circulars:
- Various subjects Births and Deaths Registration Act 1947 Fees for marriage by licence - members of HM and Allied Forces and Mercantile Marine. Returns under Old Age Pensions Act 1936 Births, deaths and marriages among Belgian and Netherlands subjects and Channel Islands refugees Reporting deaths from lead, phosphorus mercurial, arsenic, etc poisoning or death from anthrax. National registration birth codes - NR 33/31 Biro pen Telephone calls to the General Register Office (Former reference: GRO No 1).
- Withdrawal of concessionary reduced rate marriage licences to HM and Allied Forces and Mercantile Marine (Former reference: GRO No 2).
- Various subjects Divorce decrees granted by the High Court of England Acceptance of notice for marriage to take place in Scotland Collection of ration documents of deceased persons (GRO No 4) Marriages - prisoners of war (GRO No 5) (Former reference: GRO No 3).
- Annual population estimates (Former reference: GRO No 6).
- Part-time registration officers employed also on public assistance work (Former reference: GRO No 7).
- Marriage at a register office (Former reference: GRO No 8).
- Issue of short certificates of birth (Former reference: GRO No 9).
- Various subjects Cancellation of instructions Consents to marriage of minors Quarterly certified copies and occasional copies of birth entries National registration birth code Legibility of carbon copies Preparation and disposal of forms NR 33/31 Completion of forms GRO. WP 13 and 14, GRO Fam 57 and OAP (Return) form 25 Collection of ration documents of deceased persons Death certificates of persons in certain professions (Former reference: GRO No 10).
- Registration officers - scales of salary (Former reference: GRO No 11).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3542998/
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RG 41
General Register Office: Circulars
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