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Getting married by "registrar's certificate" , or just "by certificate" was, and is, the standard civil process of giving "notice" to marry ..... by far the most common for register office weddings and also for those in non-conformist churches. The 1836 Marriage Act did...

Introducing a system to manage booked access to the computers just for this would be a big task for TNA, so I don't blame them. On my recent visits most of the PCs have been vacant, and they are reasonably spaced (and masks required), so I don't see an issue. I won't be visiting TNA to access the 19...

No plans to upgrade at the moment ..... My desktop is a few years old and it's i5 processor isn't supported, but works very well. My <3yr old, and quite hi-spec at the time, laptop apparently also isn't suitable which was a bit surprising and the Microsoft upgrade checker helpfully advised me to con...

it should do, yes.

Am I right I thinking that (if telling the truth) the only way the mother would know this would be if she knew the family who adopted the child? If the process is as it is now I can see no other possibility. I've heard of/seen a number of cases of information/letters about the child and their progr...

The high pricing is roughly in line with that for the 1911 Census and the 1939 Register when they were first released, so not really a great surprise. FindMyPast (and TNA) have confirmed that it will be available to view free of charge in the reading rooms at Kew, as was the case with both the previ...

A re-registration would appear in the index in the quarter the re-registration was made (months or years later in some cases). It will be under the district where the birth took place. You would expect there to be a later note added in the quarter of the birth to point to the later entry. It will be...

Thanks both. I do have the first (possibly only) and eroneous certificate bought from the GRO in London and before online indexes existed and back in the 1980s. I hadn't realised it hadn't been included in the online index until now and am curious. The baby (an accident) was registered as the child...

I know from a case in the early 1960s where two lesbians married in London by trying to deceive the Registrar that one of them was a man that the Registrar General refused to issue a copy of the certificate to them or anyone else and a note to that effect would be made if anyone enquired. I know th...

Thank you. I have a copy of the original (possibly only) cert bought back in the days when you had to search those big registers in St Catherine’s in London. I don’t think I looked for the other version then. Does a missing online index entry suggest simple error or something else? A certificate is...