Genealogy Chat

This is not a tip! Does anyone have a cert issued on the first day of Civil Registration - 1st July 1837?? What's the nearest anyone has to that date? I have a marriage entry from the month before, so no dads names etc! Gggrrrrr! Oh - there IS A TIP - the first day of civil reg was 1st July 1837!!! Happy Hunting - Sarah

Maddeningly, my great great grandparents married in April 1837, so I still don't know who Henry's father was after many years searching. I've got a death certificate dated 1830, not in the declared information section but on the left of the Registration district section. Good job I know it should be 1839, .. or should it? UPDATE Just found a copy of a parish register entry for a marriage in 'The Parish Church in the parish of Portsmouth' on 7 August 1837. (in fairness, I can't say this is an ancestor. The name is right, in the right area but no link proven , -yet.)

Gwynneth - Those BMD's in the first half of 1837 are surely done to try us?? Snap - I too have a cert with two different years on it! Like yours it's the one at the top that is wrong, by three years! Sarah

Just been having another look at certificates. My great great grandmother, Silvey was born 28 September 1837 and registered the following month. ..Although she never seemed to use that name again! Christened Jane Sylvia, she was thereafter usually seen as Jane. These are about my nearest to that date, I think.

Doh, nearly my birthday (29th Sept) - though not the same year lol Sorry for spelling your name wrong, Gwyneth! Sarah

No problem Sarah I've had plenty of years to get used to quite a variety of spellings! That's the problem of having a Welsh name but growing up in England.

Oh Lyla That's very special then. I wonder whether other people will be able to match that tomorrow. We're still looking for a birth and death then.

Lyla - Lucky you!! Gwyneth - oh for GR making it easier to have the thread right in front of you when replying. I read your name before I clicked Reply, but still didn't manage to get it right. If I had a pound for each time I have had to click the back button whilst replying to a thread, because I'm always forgetting the names of the rellies!! I think GR just enjoy making things more difficult than they should be.... Sarah

Not as good as Lyla, and I don't have the exact dates because it's not my family, but my jammy friend has the birth of her ancestor, registered September 1837 AND the marriage of his parents, same quarter. On the other side of the coin, I have an ancestor who lived to be 95 (well, so her family said) then died in January 1851. Another three little months, and I might have known where she was born.

one of mine made it into the world just in time to avoid having his mother's maiden name recorded, so this annoyed me as much as it's going to annoy everybody else... Civil Registration was supposed to start 1st April, according to the 1836 Act, but they weren't ready in time so they had to rush through a bill to delay it for 3 months

Ooh, Robin, I didn't know that! How irritating.... Brenda - I have said this before, but hubby's ancestor was in his coffin awaiting burial on the night of the 1841 census, so I say he was ''sleeping'' on the premises, so WHY couldn't they have asked him if he was born in county???? It would have been so helpful! Sarah