FreeBMD/Registration question

I found the following entries in FreeBMD:

Births Mar 1840
Hoyte Louisa Huntingdon 14 196

Births Sep 1842
Hoyte Mary Maddison Huntingdon 14 194

Dave Mayall...

It isn't on an earlier page.

The page numbers start at 1 in each quarter.

T.M. Sommers...

Is there more than one volume 14, then? Or are the volumes very big?

Charani...

I believe I'm right in saying that there are four volume 14s in each
year, one for each quarter.

T.M. Sommers...

Each quarter starts with its own volume 1?

Jeff...

No. Volume numbers are unique to individual districts.

For instance Hackney has the following volume numbers:
III (1837-51); 1b (1852-1946); 5C (1946-65); 5B (1965-74).

T.M. Sommers...

Sorry to be so dense. Each volume, therefore, contains multiple
page 1s, one for each quarter?

Jeff...

It makes it easier to follow if you think of volumes as the files that
the GRO stuck the returns from the local registrar into.

As to the "volumes" themselves. You'll never see them, they are purely a
filing mechanism within the GRO. The local registrar fileg quite
differently.

Hugh Watkins...

it is really a good idea to visit the family records centre just once
and handle the index volumes

Jeff...

Yes but "volume" in the sense you are using it has no relationship to
the term as used by the OP.

make some searches starting with your self

see the annotations of errors
what I call being the genealogical tourist

the (copy) registers are not public normally but some FHS have arranged
visits to Stockport too

the originals are the local copies
and you may see many church volumes of marriages on film or at County
record Offices

all is basically a quill pen method of running a civil service department

Hugh W

Anne Chambers...

Each quarter starts with its own *page* 1

It seems odd to me that a later entry would be on an earlier
page. Could that happen? Looking at the scan, the 194 could be
a 196, but even that seems odd.