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International Money Order payable and Records authenticated by the
to the miblic Record Office. Up 10 Commissioners, together wilh cer-
three applications may be made on tain unauthenticated Registers of
any one forn~; furtber forms wiil be baptisms and rnarriages performed
sent on request. There may be a at the Reet and King's Bench
delay of some weeks before searches Prisons, at May Fair and at the
can be undertaken and the results Mint in Southwark, which had been
deposited in the Bishop of London's
notified to the enquirer.
The Parish Registers often con- Registry
1821, should
in
be
tain entries relating not only to deposited in the General Register
rnen~bers of the Church of England Office.
A new Commission was appointed
but also to Dissenters, since the
Registration Act of 1695 required in 1857 to consider a number of
notice of al1 births to be given to Non-Parochial Registers which had
the Rector, Vicar. Curate or Clerk corne to light since 1838. It made
of the parish, while Lord Hard- its report later in the same year
wicke's Marriage Act of 1753 vir- (House of Commons, Sessional
tually restricted marriages to Parish Papers. 1857-58, vol. 23), and this
Churches. although it did not apply was followed by the Births and
to Quakers or Jews and was often Deaths Registration Act of 1858,
ignored by Roman Catholics. Many which provided for the authentica-
Dissenting Churches, however main- tion of these Registers and their
tained their own Registers of births deposit in the General Register
or baptisms (particularly after 1785. Office.
when the extension of stamp duty to
The Non-Parochial Registers and
Non-Conformist Records deposited under the Acts
registration
in
Registers appeared to give official of 1840 and 1858, together with a
Registers
unauthenticated
sanction to them), whiIe a Registry few
subsequentiy
of births for Presbyterians. Indepen- deposited
in
the
dents and Baptists living in and General Register Office, were trans-
around London was established at ferred in 1961 to the Public Record
Dr. Williams' Library in Red Cross Office, where they have been
Street in 1742 and the Wesleyan arranged in fivc classes, comprising
Methodists established their own some 7,000 volumes and files. They
Metropolitan Registry in Paternos- are open to inspection without pay-
ter Row in 1818. Those Dissenting ment of a fee in the Search Rooms.
Churches which had their own There is no general index to these
cemetries also maintained Registers classes and for a search to be prac-
of burials, whjle the Quakers and ticable it is necessary to know at
(until 1753) a few other Dissenting least the approxi.mate locality in
Churches maintained Registers of which a bùth, marriage or death
marriages. occurred and preferably also the
In 1836 Commissioners were denomination of the church or
appointed to inquire into the state, chape1 at which it would be likely
custody and authenticity of these to be registered. Extended and
Non-Parochial Registers and their speculative searches in these Regis-
Report of 1838 (House of Com- ters cannot be undertaken by the
rnons, Sessional Papers, 1837-38. stan of the Public Record Office.
vol. 28) was followed by the Non- With one exception (the Register
Parochial Registers Act of 1840. of the Independent Church ar St.
This provided that those Registers Petersburg, Russia, 181 8-1840) the
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