Catalogue description General Register Office: Marriage Act 1898: Registers of Authorised Persons

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Details of RG 42
Reference: RG 42
Title: General Register Office: Marriage Act 1898: Registers of Authorised Persons
Description:

Registers of persons appointed to register non-conformist marriages in certified places of worship.
Date: 1899-1931
Arrangement:

The system of indexing appears to have changed before 1931 - the index relates only to the first three pieces but there are omissions. In addition to particulars of an Authorised Person and the registered building with which he was connected, the entries in the registers, arranged in numerical order of appointment, also record the registration number of the building. These two numbers appear against a person's name in the index (the registered building number is imposed above that of the appointment), thus enabling an individual to be traced in the registers.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

General Register Office, 1836-1970
Physical description: 10 volume(s)
Accumulation dates: April 1899 to December 1931
Administrative / biographical background:

The 1836 Marriage Act made provision for the registration, for the solemnization of marriages, of any building certified as a place of religious worship. A registrar of marriages had to attend and register the marriage. To give non-conformist bodies the same rights as enjoyed by the Established Church, Quakers and Jews, the Marriage Act 1898 provided for the appointment (by the governing body of a registered building) of an authorised person in whose presence the marriage had to be solemnized and by whom it had to be registered.

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