Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Hi

Just a question does anyone have any ideas when a church isnt mentioned.. what the ref nos mean..

DAVIES Charles F ---- WALSH Doris E Liverpool, Register Office or Registrar Attended Liverpool (REG_LP/335/104 )
Do these numbers stand for certain churches etc

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Don't think they do Col

I think one is the page number and the other is the entry number in the register.. Something like that anyway

Someone will put us right

Would be handy though wouldn't it

Simone x

Sort of knew it really

but maybe there is a genius amongst us who has broken the code haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

I am helping someone with DAVIESSSSSSSSSS

We have only just discovered his birth year you see and burial place..we have his marriage from Lancs BMD but cos hes so common we are waiting for his marriage cert to progress..

Oh well something will give.

xx

register LP [liverpool] / vol 335/page 104

When a church is not named in the Lancashire BMD website it means that the church did not have an Authorised Person of their own to register the marriage.
Authorised Persons only became common about the 1960s (I think - thats just a guess). Before that the Registrar from the Register Office would attend to register the marriage in their own register which was kept at the Register Office. It could be the same register as would have been used for the marriages also conducted at the Register Office. So, in answer to your question, the prefix would be the Registrar's code followed by the page or entry number.

A little bit more .... the middle number would be the Register number then the entry number.