new price for GRO certs

[kooky]

Nowadays, when so many marriages are civil ceremonies, held in castles, hotels, theatres, etc, as well as registry offices,the registrar is present, the book is signed and a cert. is issued. The details must be sent to GRO, mustn't they? Has this not always been the case?
Kooky
I have just checked, and the marriage of my older child, not in a church, in 2003 is in the records in Find My Past.

[nigelp]

Nowadays, when so many marriages are civil ceremonies, held in castles, hotels, theatres, etc, as well as registry offices,the registrar is present, the book is signed and a cert. is issued. The details must be sent to GRO, mustn't they? Has this not always been the case?
Kooky

This is what the legislation requires. However, it doesn't always happen so you will occasionally find a record with the local Registry not recorded in the GRO.

Nigel

[coombs]

Copies of birth certificates and death certificates can not be obtained from record offices. Some births and deaths in local register offices may not appear in the GRO.

[kooky]

Could you clarify this please? Your first sentence is very misleading.
 Are there dates when legislation changed for instance?
I have received several death and birth certs from GRO.
Kooky

[coombs]

what I meant was all 3 certs are available from GRO but you can obtain marriage certs from the local record office providing it wasn't in a non conformist church but you cannot obtain birth or death certs from local record offices. And you can obtain all 3 from any local register office.

[kooky]

Thank you!
Kooky

[Sloe Gin]

Kooky, I think you are confusing record offices and register offices. 

As Ben says, the church registers (usually available in record offices) have a copy of the same information found on a marriage certificate, because identical forms were completed at the same time for the parish register and for the Registrar.  But the church register details for baptisms and burials are not the same as those on birth and death certificates, although they can still be useful.

[kooky]

I am not confusing record offices and register offices. I thought this thread was about the cost of certs. from GRO.
I have never obtained any post 1837 cert. info from a record office.
I am probably just confused
We will probably have this thread locked anyway soon!
Kooky

[Sloe Gin]

Ben was just drawing attention to the fact that there is a cheaper alternative to obtaining GRO marriage certificates, so it's relevant to the topic.