Birth, Marriage and Death Registrations

England and Wales

Civil Registration began in England and Wales in mid-1837 and records were originally organised by quarter. District Registrars collected information from Register Offices, Churches etc and submitted this in a report to the General Record Office in London. The same District organisation is used for both BMDs and Census information. The following table gives the number of entries per year for each of the three events and by clicking on the relevant number (if underlined) you will be taken to the details of those registration entries. If the entry is not yet underlined I have not had the time to upload it yet - specific queries can be answered by email if required.

In these tables the "GRO Ref" column contains a two or three part reference to the centrally held records which must be quoted when ordering certificates - this takes the format Volume/Page or Volume/Page/Suffix.

The "Place" columns contain the county name in it's three-letter "Chapman Code" format - a table explaining these codes and other geographic abbreviations can be found here.

The "Reference" column contains cross-references to trees to be found elsewhere on this website, 7-digit numbers refer to the main section of trees, 8-character entries refer to the section of speculative trees, i.e. those that are not as yet confirmed as entirely correct. Generally speaking the first three digits of the 7-digit number are the tree number (000-010 all refer to tree 100 as well), the 8-character entries start with three alpha characters indicating the county followed by a two digit tree reference. One exception to the above is entries in Births & Deaths beginning 080 - these link corresponding birth and death records for infant deaths not yet included in trees (usually only up to about 5 years old) which allows people to ignore these entries when seeking an ancestor.

For the marriage pages the last three columns and many of the details of spouse's names have been extracted from the various local BMD indices published on-line by dedicated volunteers. My thanks to them all as I could never have accumulated this information any other way.

If you can link any of these references to people in trees I would very much appreciate the information - each entry that is linked to a tree helps other people in two ways, either by guiding them to a tree for their family or by letting them exclude that entry from their research (especially useful with common forenames). Currently only about 6% of births, 4% of marriages and 2% of deaths are placed into their trees.

Anyone is welcome to link to any of these pages, however they should never be copied to another site without specific permission as they are liable to frequent updating as research into these families continues.

Year	Births	Marriages	Deaths
1837	19	14	12
1838	67	30	41
1839	62	24	33
1840	69	29	43
1841	69	38	40
1842	67	35	38
1843	74	40	41
1844	64	40	39
1845	64	36	52
1846	63	37	40
1847	64	28	45
1848	79	29	42
1849	67	31	49
1850	77	33	42
1851	79	29	45
1852	72	31	42
1853	66	16	46
1854	78	46	60
1855	71	30	49
1856	92	40	59
1857	75	44	41
1858	76	43	47
1859	84	43	56
1860	73	53	51
1861	94	39	46
1862	77	34	46
1863	93	53	59
1864	81	50	54
1865	103	36	53
1866	90	32	56
1867	88	45	55
1868	82	44	44
1869	99	46	49
1870	89	49	50
1871	110	36	51
1872	73	40	47
1873	100	46	54
1874	109	54	54
1875	92	41	64
1876	109	46	52
1877	105	51	61
1878	103	58	60
1879	109	40	62
1880	101	38	72
1881	114	49	53
1882	100	48	67
1883	114	42	64
1884	106	47	51
1885	91	49	56
1886	116	54	62
1887	108	45	60
1888	108	42	67
1889	111	57	50
1890	98	36	45
1891	86	51	73
1892	101	61	49
1893	98	56	70
1894	85	50	61
1895	102	42	53
1896	84	56	53
1897	103	60	51
1898	109	53	58
1899	120	63	65
1900	118	63	78
1901	113	69	64
1902	115	56	60
1903	112	64	63
1904	112	70	56
1905	112	69	54
1906	104	79	55
1907	113	50	49
1908	105	55	45
1909	109	51	62
1910	89	52	50
1911	102	59	62
1912	79	71	42
1913	81	56	56
1914	95	60	62
1915	92	83	65
1916	84	72	52
1917	69	56	67
1918	73	61	67
1919	75	88	48
1920	110	85	65
1921	85	83	35
1922	76	86	55
1923	85	52	40
1924	83	62	60
1925	76	68	45
1926	67	76	70
1927	73	76	53
1928	65	75	44
1929	68	84	61
1930	71	87	45
1931	67	99	52
1932	64	69	50
1933	64	84	70
1934	65	77	59
1935	66	80	56
1936	65	74	52
1937	68	83	68
1938	63	80	50
1939	73	102	76
1940	67	110	70
1941	73	96	64
1942	76	93	40
1943	80	70	51
1944	88	62	61
1945	68	87	54
1946	105	91	60
1947	112	85	62
1948	89	90	52
1949	73	91	58
1950	81	72	52
1951	73	67	54
1952	78	82	56
1953	78	75	58
1954	77	77	69
1955	73	67	66
1956	75	61	49
1957	58	70	55
1958	85	64	57
1959	80	79	67
1960	65	76	64
1961	85	68	61
1962	83	73	62
1963	84	76	76
1964	88	83	67
1965	85	95	60
1966	85	86	65
1967	92	73	74
1968	84	80	75
1969	84	90	46
1970	89	85	76
1971	99	85	60
1972	76	98	84
1973	76	92	60
1974	67	84	75
1975	57	82	60
1976	63	72	80
1977	54	86	60
1978	61	56	69
1979	50	55	78
1980	70	75	77
1981	51	81	60
1982	66	65	63
1983	58	61	58
1984	58	66	74
1985	64	65	71
1986	57	52	57
1987	70	69	64
1988	55	71	60
1989	81	69	55
1990	64	68	57
1991	80	57	52
1992	88	58	52
1993	62	47	??
1994	82	47	??
1995	80	54	??
1996	73	55	??
1997	83	44	59
1998	78	46	63
1999	68	53	68
2000	81	48	72
Totals	13,519	9,959	9,081