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    Series

    General Register Office: Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages: Correspondence...

    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. I…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1874-1998
    Reference
    RG 48
  • Catalogue level
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    Office for National Statistics and Predecessors: Census Returns: Correspondence,...

    This hybrid series contains both digital records and registered paper files. Records within this series include correspondence and papers of the Registrar General and the Local Government Board on Censuses taken under the Census Acts 1900, 1910 and 1…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1894-2020
    Reference
    RG 19
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office: International Section: Correspondence and Papers

    This series consists of correspondence and papers relating to the collection of medical and population statistics by the United Nations and other international organisations. They fall into the following categories:1. Papers relating to various editi…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1910-1988
    Reference
    RG 47
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    Series

    General Register Office: National Health Service Central Register: Correspondence...

    Instructions, memoranda and specimen forms used by the National Health Service Central Register, and papers dealing with staffing, cost and organisation.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1947-1986
    Reference
    RG 22
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Office for National Statistics and Predecessors: Population and Medical Statistics:...

    This hybrid series contains both digital records and registered paper files. Records within the series include correspondence of the Statistical Branch with the Ministry of Health and other government departments, the Registrars General of Scotland a…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1910-2013
    Reference
    RG 26
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    Series

    Irish Boundary Commission (Feetham Commission): Records

    This series includes the minutes, papers, correspondence and report of the Irish Boundary Commission, and records of oral and written evidence submitted to it. The series includes the notes and memoranda of R A Boger, Chief Technical Assistant to the…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1922-1925
    Reference
    CAB 61
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Department for Education and Employment: Grant Maintained Schools: Database

    This dataset represents a snapshot of Grant Maintained (GM) Schools Database when it was transferred from the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) in 2000. It is effectively the final form of the database, as no additions or alterations are…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1988-1999
    Reference
    ED 278
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Historic Mortality Datasets

    The Historic Mortality Data Files database was originally created as a basic tool for researchers studying mortality in England and Wales. These two datasets reflect different versions of the database. The first dataset covers 1901-1992, and reflects…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1901-2003
    Reference
    RG 69
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    Series

    General Register Office: Registers of Clandestine Marriages and of Baptisms in the...

    Principally registers, 1667-c1777 (with some indexes, 1698-1754) and note books, 1682-1774, giving particulars of clandestine marriages and baptisms performed in the Fleet Prison, at the May Fair Chapel, at King's Bench Prison or within the Mint, as …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1667-c1777
    Reference
    RG 7
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    Series

    Central Office of Information: Public Information Films

    This series contains a selection of public information films produced by the Central Office of Information (COI) as part of national campaings designed to inform the public on issues which affect their daily lives, such as health, safety, welfare, ed…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1945-2005
    Reference
    INF 32
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Department for Education and Employment: Analytical Services: Register of Educational...

    The Register of Educational Establishments (REE) and EduBase datasets contain records on over 53,000 schools in England (predominately), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, plus a small number of schools in overseas countries. The schools includ…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1995-2006
    Reference
    NV 2
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office: Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of...

    Registers of births, deaths, burials and marriages of congregations of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England and Wales. A number of original birth and burial notes and original marriage certificates are included. There is also a bookl…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1578-1841
    Reference
    RG 6
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    Series

    Department of Health: Public Health Common Dataset

    The Public Health Common Dataset (PHCDS) contains annual datasets of public health statistics from all regional and district health authorities, and family health services authorities.Each PHCDS dataset consists of a number of indicators on topics su…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1984-1999
    Reference
    JA 5
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    Series

    General Register Office and successors: Statistics Division and successors: Primary...

    Information in the Primary Births datasets includes the date and location of the registration of birth, where the birth occurred, the sex of the child, whether born inside or outside of marriage, date of birth, and number of births in cases of multip…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1953-1999
    Reference
    RG 71
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office: National Registration: 1939 Register

    This series comprises digitally scanned versions of the enumerator's transcript books for the national registration of the civilian population that took place on the evening of 29 September 1939. The records, which cover only enumeration districts in…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939
    Reference
    RG 101
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office: Letter Books

    This series contains General Register Office letterbooks, including the Registrar General's private letter book, Treasury letters, correspondence relating to the 1891 Census and Local Government Board volumes.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1836-1920
    Reference
    RG 29
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Establishment...

    A selected sample of General Register Office correspondence with the Treasury, Ministry of Health and other Government Departments, the Industrial Court, Civil Service Clerical Association, local Registrars of Births, Deaths and Marriages and individ…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1836-2003
    Reference
    RG 20
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to...

    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 …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1646-1970
    Reference
    RG 8
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office: 1921 Census Plans of Division

    Plans of Division are used by Census Officers (usually Local Registrars) to record how their registration sub-district would be divided up into enumeration districts for the census. In urban areas they list which streets are in which enumeration dist…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1921
    Reference
    RG 114
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Board of Education and predecessor: Elementary Education, Local Education Authority...

    Board of Education files relating to the supply of elementary school accommodation by Local Education Authorities established under the Education Act 1902.These files were made up after 1903 and in the case of county councils, the files begin no earl…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1870-1945
    Reference
    ED 16

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