Jones / Mariner marriage Upminster

[nannyj]

You can always post back on here if you have any queries. Essex records are great. I started on 24 hours, then a month, then annual. It's addictive!

[KGarrad]

Oh my goodness, thank you very much. It's a little difficult for me to get my head around this system of districts with registrations, I've been looking at the numbers with a blank face until having just read your post and now I think it should be a little easier. Fingers crossed a Hobbit can get the hang of it

GenUKI is very helpful with regard to parishes and districts!

There is a downloadable PDF file of parishes, and their corresponding Registration Districts over the years (there have been many changes!):
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/places/index.html

And a list of Registration Districts in Essex:
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/ess.html
If you click on a District name, you will get a list of parishes within that district.

Basically, in 1837, with the onset of Civil Registration, all parishes were grouped into Registration Districts, with a Superintendent Registrar in charge of each district.

Some districts comprised parishes from more than 1 county - so beware of that!

[geno500]

You can also use FreeBMD ,if you find a birth ,marriage or death,it will give you the registration district and if you click on that it will have a list of all the places in that registration district,also as you seem new to this,you can if you find a marriage find all the children from it,by using FreeBMD correctly,and all at no cost,which was why we started it some years ago,the transcribing of the records is still ongoing although I no longer do that.

[Jolee]

Hi
St Laurence is up the road to me so if you find a burial and need any photos of anything let me know and I will go with my trusty camera to see what I can find. You may find something St Andrews Hornchurch and St Edwards Romford all three are very old churches and within the same area and I have found my ancestors in all three.  Romford library also has a lot of BMD info on these churches let me know if there is anything I can look up for you.  This goes to anyone else that I can help.

[geno500]

Without doubt the Essex records online is a big step forward for people,it is a pity so few other counties have followed suit,the numbers from Essex are impressive,if I remember they started it in the May and had the total cost of doing it back by the November,and the photos of the early records are so much better than the micro fiche we had before,it was giant step forward,I would like the ERO to fall in line with other record offices about records within the 100 year rule at the moment if you want to look at a school record from 1920 you cannot, if you use Cambridgeshire records all you do is sign a document saying it is for your own use and is for you family history.