Gibraltar baptisms/birth certificates

[soulsister]

Hi all!

Just wondering how you would go about searching for baptisms/births in Gibraltar?? Anyone know?

Emma

[PaulineJ]

In what era/century?
Was the father in the armed services?

Pauline

[Gaie]

Hi Emma & Pauline

There are military BMDs in Gibraltar on Findmypast (Home-Military-Armed Forces BMD 1764-1994); also Consular BMDs on there as well (Home-BMDs-Births British Overseas 1761-1994).

As Pauline says, it helps to have a little more detail; are you looking for native Gibraltans or births to British people posted or living in Gibraltar?

Kind regards
Gaie

[soulsister]

I'll be looking for a Leveson Tilbrook born there about 1849. I know I'm going to need his marriage cert before I can find anything more out about him, but have just spent a small fortune on certs this week before I discovered this gentleman! I was just wondering where I would need to look.

Take it I'll have a better chance of finding him if his father was in the Armed-Forces then!?

Emma

[PaulineJ]

Take it I'll have a better chance of finding him if his father was in the Armed-Forces then!?

Emma

Not necessarily, but it will indicate where to start checking in the first instance

Pauline

[behindthefrogs]

You seem to be mainly asking about a Gibraltar baptism whereas the comments above are about a Gibraltar birth certificate.

However if it was a forces baptism it would probably have been carried out by the chaplain and so you need to start looking at the records of his fathe's regiment.  Otherwise you are looking for the registers of the church in which the ceremony was performed.  They may also help in the case of a forces baptism.

David

[soulsister]

Many thanks for all replies! 

Once I get the marriage cert, it should give me his father's name and occupation and therefore whereabouts to start my search ie. forces or not. I'm thinking, rightly or wrongly, that his first name LEVESON is a surname being used as a Christian name, possibly his mother's?! He isn't on the 1871 census for England, and marries in 1873 in Lancashire so he must have arrived in England between 71 and 73.

Thanks again!

Emma

[soulsister]

  How lucky am I!? Just did a search on Leveson Tilbrook on findmypast and the very first image I paid to view had him on!!

Births: GRO ARMY CHAPLAINS BIRTH INDICES

Tilbrook Leveson   Station: Gibraltar  Year:1850-59   Page: 49


Doesn't give much away for birth year though I'm suspecting it must be 1850!

Emma

[soulsister]

I now have Leveson's birth date of 23rd Nov. 1849

Baptised at King's Chapel, Gibraltar by J. Buchanan, Officer Chaplain to the Forces, on 7th Jan 1850.

His father was Charles Tilbrook, a Colour Sergeant in the 56th Regiment of Foot.

Does anyone know how I go about getting a birth certificate for him and if this would show his mother's maiden name? I'm not really sure how the forces bmds work!

Emma