Civil Registration District changes question

[Tickettyboo]

The Districts changed over the years as shown  on https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/

The GRO index reference to apply for a certificate would remain unchanged for any certs prior to the change

Am I correct in thinking that when e.g. a sub district was moved from one district to another, the existing local registers for that district would be transferred and kept at the newer local District?

Boo

[AntonyMMM]

The registers would become the responsibility of the Superintendent Registrar of the new district - but where they get physically stored might vary.

I worked in Buckinghamshire, a single registration district which had gone through a number of changes over the years, but the original registers were still kept on two sites reflecting an earlier North/South split.

[AngelFish]

I think sometimes it may vary from place to place, depending on where they have space to store them?
I vaguely remember needing a marriage record checked for Blackpool district, and I was passed around a few areas/offices before they were located.

[Tickettyboo]

Thanks for taking the time to help  AntonyMMM

From what you say there doesn't seem to have been a hard and fast rule.

Boo

[Tickettyboo]

I think sometimes it may vary from place to place, depending on where they have space to store them?
I vaguely remember needing a marriage record checked for Blackpool district, and I was passed around a few areas/offices before they were located.

Thanks Angelfish,
and I have a vague recollection of needing a birth record checked and being told the subdistrict in which it was originally registered  had, some years later, been split between 2  Districts (neither of which were the original).

Will need to go back through a couple of decades of notes to see if I can pin down, who when and where though!

Boo

[coombs]

It depends I think.

Talking of this I have done some research into certain registration districts where my ancestors lived, and often they change boundary or a chunk of one district is transferred to a new district.

For example the Yarmouth registration district in Norfolk from 1837 to 1923 had just Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. From 1924 to 1939 the Yarmouth district gained the whole district of Flegg which was Hemsby, Martham, Rollesby, Scratby etc. And in the civil registration indexes, they come under "Yarmouth" but the certificates themselves says "Yarmouth and Flegg". It is unclear if the registers for Flegg were transferred to the Yarmouth main office, or stored where they were when it was Flegg.

So someone born in Martham in say, 1927, their birth would appear in the civil reg indexes as "Yarmouth" making you think they were born in the town itself, but by 1927 Yarmouth gained the Flegg districts which was outside Great Yarmouth itself.

[KGarrad]

From 1837 until 1924, The Registration District was Yarmouth, and consisted of the Civil Parishes of Gorleston and Great Yarmouth.

From 1924 the Registration District of Yarmouth and Flegg were combined into the new Registrarion District of Yarmouth and Flegg.

From 1939, the Registration District of Yarmouth and Flegg was renamed Great Yarmouth.

See: https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/great%20yarmouth.html