Can you get pre reg certificates?

[maxxangel]

Can you get marriage certificates for people who married pre registration period and can you get christening certificates if you know the dates and place?

[Rena]

I presume you mean baptisms and marriages pre 1837.  If you're lucky there might be surving church records going back to the 1600 or 1700's.  Most of these were filmed in the 1980's and are listed on website www.familysearch.org   Take a note of the film number and contact your local morman Church of the Latter Day Saints to organise a date to view.  If they have to order the film for you there is a nominal rental charge (used to be £2.75).   You'll either find your local facility in the phone directory or on this familysearch page http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp

[charlotteCH]

Hi maxxangel,

The short answer to your question is NO.

Marriage certs started with the beginning of civil registration in 1837, as I understand it.  What Rena says is the way to go with pre 1837 things-

charlotte

[Ruskie]

Another way to obtain copies of marriage and baptism entries is via the local county council record office where the event occured. Costs are usually just a couple of pounds per photocopy. Good luck.

[Guy Etchells]

A certificate is a certified copy of an entry register.
This may be a certified copy of an entry in a civil register or it may be a certified copy of an entry in a parish register.

As, in the main, the only way to get a copy of an entry in a civil register is to apply for a certificate, most people use that route.

Parish registers are far more easily accessed and rather than apply for a certified copy of an entry in a parish register (certificate) most people simply view the parish register and transcribe the entry themselves.

If you want a certificate you can obtain one from the incumbent of the parish.
Cheers
Guy

[stonechat]

The 'nominal' charge for ordering films through FHCs is now over £7!

[LizzieW]

Parish registers are far more easily accessed and rather than apply for a certified copy of an entry in a parish register (certificate) most people simply view the parish register and transcribe the entry themselves.

I've viewed parish registeres in local archives and there has been was a facility, on the microfiche reader to print the appropriate pages, cost about £2.50 from memory.

Lizzie

[behindthefrogs]

If a pre-1837 parish register is still with the parish then the encumbant could in theory provide a certified copy of an entry.  However virtually no parishes hold their registers that far back.  It is unlikely that a record office will provide such a service.

David 

[kathb]

If you view the film in my local archives you can then print a copy on another machine.  They only charge 50p per copy.  Most local archives will print off for you if you know the date and details I have never heard of anyone being charged more than a few pounds if the archive staff do this for you.
Regards
Kathb