GROS celebrates its 150th birthday:
"The Act introducing the registration of births, deaths and marriages in Scotland took effect on January 1, 1855.
It replaced the system dating from 1551, when the parish churches were supposed to keep a register of baptisms and marriages (and, later, burials).
But the 1801 Census found out that, of the 850 parishes in Scotland, not more than 99 had regular registers, the rest having only occasional entries or no register whatever.
This was replaced in 1855 by the present system where local registrars, supervised by the Registrar General, keep a record of all events, with a duplicate copy at the General Register Office for Scotland in Edinburgh.
Today, records of births, marriages and deaths are stored on a computer in Edinburgh - very different from the leather-bound volumes of 150 years ago."
sorry about that - blogged 5 weeks late !
"The Act introducing the registration of births, deaths and marriages in Scotland took effect on January 1, 1855.
It replaced the system dating from 1551, when the parish churches were supposed to keep a register of baptisms and marriages (and, later, burials).
But the 1801 Census found out that, of the 850 parishes in Scotland, not more than 99 had regular registers, the rest having only occasional entries or no register whatever.
This was replaced in 1855 by the present system where local registrars, supervised by the Registrar General, keep a record of all events, with a duplicate copy at the General Register Office for Scotland in Edinburgh.
Today, records of births, marriages and deaths are stored on a computer in Edinburgh - very different from the leather-bound volumes of 150 years ago."
sorry about that - blogged 5 weeks late !
posted by Hugh W at 4:52 pm
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