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Islington Register Office
Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:39:03 +0100
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Charani...
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Islington is one of the register offices which won't issue
certificates for family history purposes. They refer people to the
GRO indices.
I have a birth which took place in Barnsbury in 1885 which is not
listed in the GRO index. I have checked under all the variations of
Jenny M Benson...
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I wonder if it's something strange about Barnsbury Park! I have
mysterious entry in the 1881 Census for a child there for whom I can't
find *any* other record. She is listed as a grandchild of the HoH, aged
10, but I have come to the conclusion that she was a figment of the
Enumerator's imagination!
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Eve McLaughlin...
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As the GRP indexes are created from information sent in by the local
registrars, there is a very good chance the person was not registered at
all. If it was left beyond the 6 weeks, the hassle involved in doing it
late was considerable.
Alternatively, look for the name under a simple variant spelling; a
complex change of the first letter or subsequent (like Instone appearing
as Juston..)
And the birth may have occurred elsewhere than in Islington - visiting
Gran at Heckmondwike on the day.
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the surname in FreeBMD and 1837online. I have the date of birth but
I'm looking for confirmation of the parents.
Any (polite) suggestions about strategies to extract said birth
roy.stockdill...
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Cue Guy Etchells, the expert on legal matters relating to registration, to
tell us that they have a statutory duty to provide certificates! Surely it
most say so somewhere, Guy, in one of those lengthy Acts you seem to
have access to?
John Cartmell...
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But what about the responsibilities of the RO?
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certificate from Islington?
Eve McLaughlin...
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It seem pointless to batter away asking them for a certificate they may
not have at all, when you have the necessary information from ,
presumably, the 1891 census.
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Phil C....
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This is no help to you but, to redress the image of Islington, I had a
very helpful and friendly response from the local history librarian
when I sent my 12 pounds for 6 years of parish register look-ups pre
1837.
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