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st Catherine's index and Durham look up

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Rosalind

Rosalind Report 1 Aug 2003 19:01

Is st Catherine's online and can anyone tell me how I can look up Durham area online (not the census) I would like to research prior to 1880

Margaret

Margaret Report 1 Aug 2003 21:11

I think I am right in saying that St Catherine's house was where all of the General Register Office register records used to be kept ( before that Somerset House). It is the same records on FreeBMD and 1837 online, or on the GRO indexes at your library or county record office. Margaret

Janet

Janet Report 21 Aug 2003 20:26

Try www.durham.gov.uk it has BMD's & the Option to purchase certificates £7 eash + p&p