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BMD registration districts

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SpanishEyes

SpanishEyes Report 28 Dec 2009 10:04

Hello
I have just read this and am book marking it for all the inf, thanks everyone
Bridget

Researching:
Wrenn, Ford, and many others!

Julia

Julia Report 28 Dec 2009 06:34

Thank you. That's all very useful, and will help me a lot.
Julia

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 27 Dec 2009 14:08

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/regoff.html#247

try that url it might have what you are after......

Bob

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 27 Dec 2009 07:29

GENUKI has a good section on this.

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/

To find where a particular district was or now is, click on the link to Alphabetical List of Districts. You can also download a list of place names which shows which district they are in. A complete list of current Register Office addresses is also provided.

MaureeninNY

MaureeninNY Report 27 Dec 2009 05:24

LOL!!
The question was put in present tense,wasn't it!?

Just wait until 2010-I'll be writing 1910 on all my cheques.

Sorry about that one.
Maureen

mgnv

mgnv Report 27 Dec 2009 04:53

Brent.
The Register Office, Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, HA9 9HD.
Tel: 020 8937 1010. Fax: 020 8937 1021.


The way to find out this sort of thing is to first look the place up in Lewis (1848):
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=445

WILLESDEN (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Hendon, Kensington division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 5 miles (W. X. w.) from London;

Now the first rego districts were usually based on the poor law unions - Hendon here, so look up an event in Hendon 1837 on FreeBMD, say the death of John Whatsit.

Deaths Sep 1837 (>99%)
AXAM John Hendon 3 139

Now click on the Hendon link, then the more info "here" link.
We see all the places in Hendon RD, incl Willesden:

Willesden transferred to "Willesden" district on 1.10.1909

Click on the Willesden link to see:

WILLESDEN REGISTRATION DISTRICT
Created : 1.10.1909 (out of Hendon district).
Abolished : 1.4.1965 (succeeded by "Brent" district).

and

Willesden after 1965 see Brent (GTL)

At the bottom it says:

Registers now in Brent district.

We could click on the first "Brent" link, and learn the same thing.

MaureeninNY

MaureeninNY Report 27 Dec 2009 04:33

London/Mdx can become very strange.

Hendon is the reg for Willesden.
What I find works (if you have Ancestry) -open a census -type in the year of that census for birth and under parish/place type in whatever you're looking for. Most (except the ones we want to find)people haven't moved after a recent birth. The reg district is then available.

Maureen

Julia

Julia Report 27 Dec 2009 03:50

Is there a website that you can look up find what district a place is in?

What district is Willesden, London in?