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Barbados - Records of births com- Registers. It is not fully complete
menced in 1890, -deaths in 1924. In but when one realises that by 1937
some cases registration is carried it was estimared that the index con-
out by the rectors of parishes or tained over three and a half million
police magisirates, the remaiilder by names, omissions are not surprising.
the Registrar. Registers of baptism,
marriage and burial go back to as British Guiana - Cornpleted regis-
early as 1631 but prior to 1826 the ters of births and deaths from 1869
information is limired to the person and marriages from 1903 are avail-
baptised, married or buried.
able from the Registrar General,
Georgetown.
Bankters - Of those who achieve
' silk' in England al1 are admitted
British Honduras - Registers of
through one of the four Inns of
births and deaths from 1885 and
Court, namely Lincolns Inn. The
marriages from 1881 are with the
Middle Temple, The Inner Temple
Registrar General, Belize.
and Grays Inn. Al1 the Inns except
British Milibry Records -
published
Temple have
Tnner
admission registers. h the case of
INTRODUCTION. the Civil
Before
the Inner Temple it is necessary to
War, 1642-49, tllere was no Regular
write to the librarian for informa-
Standing Army in England. Regi-
tion.
occasions and requirements and
Bermuda - The Registrar General,
were usually known by the narnes
Hamilton, has the completed regis-
of the Colonel who raised them. Of
ters back to 1866. Before civil regis-
systematic records of such regiments
tration began, church records of
there are none. References to mili-
baptisms, weddings and burials were
tary operations, and sometimes to
kept, some dating back to the 17th
individual officers and soldiers, may
Century.
be found in ' State Papers. Domestic
and Foreign ', in the ' Exchequer
Ilisbop's Traoscripts - In 1597 the
and Audit Office Accounts ', and in
Province of Canterbury decreed tl-iat
the Privy Council Registers. It
copies of Parish Registers should be
would, however, be exceptional to
sent to the Registrar of each diocese
find any reference in these sources
at Easter tirne. These returns are
to the birth-place, wiFe or family of
particularly valuable where the
any individual. ' State Papers,
original registers have disappeared
Domestic' include a few widows'
or when seeking information with ments were raised to meet special
regard to birth, rnarriage or death petitions,
in any one of a number of Parishes For the period of the Civil War
within the same locality. and ~ommonweath the officers of
both armies, with their regiments,
Botswana - No information is avail- are listed in ' The Army Lisis oj
able wiih regard to the supervision Roundheads and Cavaliers', by
of records in this State. Edward Peacock (1865), and for
Parliamentary troops much derailed
Boyd's Marriage Index - An index information will be found in The
available at the Society of Genealo- Regimental Hisrory of Cromwell's
gists which lists the various mar- Army by Sir Charles Firth and
riages which have taken place in Godfrey Davies (1940). If further
England during the period of Parish information is required various