birth registrations

[Old Bristolian]

Hi Nautilus,

Could you give us their christian names so we can try a search?

Steve

[Nautilus]

Thanks everyone. I'm actually setting off for a weekend's camping this afternoon so won't be back in touch till Sunday.  If you want to have a look for me in the mean time here are their details, according to 1851 census, obviously approximate years of birth.

Eliza Lugg b1839 Clerkenwell
Clara Lugg b 1841 St Lukes
Alice Lugg b 1845 Clerkenwell, according to the IGI she was born 17 June 1844 & christened 21 July  1844


thanks again

Chris

[stanmapstone]

Actual Registration is 'Free' .... altho if you want a full Cert to be provided at the time, its £3.50

Theres nowt online about the 19th C fees, so I guess it was the provision for a late fee I remembered

The 1874 Act Fees to Registrars and Superintendent Registrars.

For registering a birth or death when required to do so at residence of person signing requisition, or at a house where child born or person died (not being a public institution), to register one shilling, to be paid by the informant.

 
Section 25 of the 1836 Act  for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England fixed the fee for  a certified copy of an entry of a birth, marriage or death at 2s. 6d. If this required a search of the indexes  then registrars could charge 1s. "for every particular search" of the indexes for not more than one year and the law also required a penny receipt stamp to be placed on each certified copy.  Thus this accounts for the the usual fee of  3s.  7d. that is sometimes quoted.

Section 30 of the 1874 Act stated that a registrar shall, upon demand made at the time of registering any birth by the person giving the information concerning the birth, and upon payment of a fee not exceeding three pence, give to such person a certificate under his hand, in the prescribed form, of having registered that birth, this was the 'Short Certificate'.
Stan

[Necromancer]

Thanks Stan - is the whole Act online somewhere, or have you transcribed it ?

Glad we sorted out the 1874/5 onus changing anyway 

[stanmapstone]

Thanks Stan - is the whole Act online somewhere, or have you transcribed it ?

Hi Newf,
There are two sites
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/acts/actind.htm

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lc/

Stan

[carol8353]

The IGI has the marriage of William Lugg and Elizabeth Turnbull on the 7th May 1832 at St James's, Westminster London.

Any good?

Carol

[Simon G.]

It doesn't really matter if it's the certificate or the registration you're paying for.  Considering the vast majority of people take the certificate at registration, the end result is the same either way.

[Nautilus]

Well I'm back from my campng trip. Looks like my guess is right & the family didn't register the births. Thanks for all the info on registration though.

Carol, I had spotted the marriage of William Lugg & Elizabeth Turnbull on the IGI but how do I know if its the right one? Now I'm getting beyond census info it's difficult to know as there's a lack of other sources to cross check.  Thanks anyway

[Old Bristolian]

Just a thought - can you get the church they were christened in from IGI & then check PRs in the neighbourhood for the marriage?

Steve