Newcastle upon Tyne birth certificates

[Gadget]

The ref that you give the GRO is the one that is on the GRO birth index. These refs are only used by the GRO. The local ones are different.

so  Dec quarter 1896  Newcastle upon Tyne vol 10b page 9

gnu

[carol8353]

The district on the official GRO index is as I quoted earlier Newcastle T.

With the volume number 10b and page 9

Make sure you spell her name as BUCH as that's what the index says.

[Gadget]

To follow on from what Carol has said,  as I live in Newcastle upon Tyne not Newcastle T

The Registration District really is called Newcastle upon Tyne but the GRO Register abbreviates it to Newcastle T  to distinguish it from all the other Newcastles in the UK ~

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/REG/districts/newcastle%20upon%20Tyne.html

So you can enter Newcastle T or Newcastle upon Tyne but NOT Newcastle on it's own.


gnu

[carol8353]

If you look at the actual GRO indexes for that entry in Dec 1896 you will see that they were calling the registration district Newcastle T .
And seeing as they tell you to quote EXACTLY what it says in the index,then that's what I suggsted you put 

I admit that in more recent times the name of the district did change in the indexes
 
Carol

[Gadget]

Hi Carol

I don't want to get into a long discussion about this. All I said was that the NewcastleT was an abbreviation of the full name of the Newcastle upon Tyne RD and that they would accept either but not Newcastle on it's own:

To follow on from what Carol has said,  as I live in Newcastle upon Tyne not Newcastle T

The Registration District really is called Newcastle upon Tyne but the GRO Register abbreviates it to Newcastle T  to distinguish it from all the other Newcastles in the UK ~

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/REG/districts/newcastle%20upon%20Tyne.html

So you can enter Newcastle T or Newcastle upon Tyne but NOT Newcastle on it's own.


gnu

It's always been Newcastle upon Tyne RD.  I've used both and not had any problems whatsoever.


gnu

[JenB]

I admit that in more recent times the name of the district did change 
 

Hi Carol 

Oh dear, I'm feeling pedantic today   

The full name of the Registration District has never changed (although its boundaries may have done). It was called Newcastle upon Tyne right from the start and is still called that today: this can be verified by looking at the various census 'enumeration district' pages available on Ancestry, and also at the Place-name index available on Genuki http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/places/regindex2-1.pdf

'Newcastle T' was simply an abbreviation used at one time in the GRO indexes, which is why it appears as such on freeBMD. Other abbreviations used for the name of this Registration District, and thus reproduced on freeBMD, were Newc. Tyne and Newcastle Tyne. These were never the name of the Registration District.

For the record on both FindMyPast and Ancestry Olga Buch's birth is indexed as being in Newcastle on Tyne R.D.

(By the way, I don't live in Newcastle upon Tyne, but I do live near the Tyne - in fact I can see a tiny bit of it from my window  )

Jennifer 

[Colin Cruddace]

Not wishing to cross swords with Gnu again 

If you quote the year, quarter, volume and page numbers correctly, then the name of the Registration District becomes irrelevant. The GRO volumes are compiled into Regions which hold many Districts.

Colin

[Gadget]

Hi Colin 

You are correct but,  if you read the posts carefully,  Jennifer and I were talking about what the  the name of the Registration district was/is actually called   - Newcastle upon Tyne not the abbreviation Newcastle T.

However,  I'm sure that hols has ordered the certificate by now.


gnu

( This is daft! I didn't cross swords, all I did was ask why you'd reccommended Sedgefield Library  )


* The spell check didn't pick up my extra c 

[Gadget]

PS

Just checked and you're wrong, Colin! 

The District name is a require field.

gnu