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From: Brett Langston <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Registry-Chorlton-Brett?
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:26:14 GMT
References: <F64JXrRjbDt3HvoFOAm00037983@hotmail.com>


The message <>
from "Barbara Lane" <> contains these words:

> I have found a marriage in Chorlton registration district 8c. I've
> looked at the website for the parish which tells me that the files are kept
> at Manchester, Salford or Trafford. However when I look at registry
> details,
> they seem to deal with 8a and 8d. Please could you enlighten me further as
> to who would have 8c marriage records.

The codes '8a', '8b', etc. are relate to the holdings of the General
Register Office, who use a completely different filing system to the
local registrars. So if you wrote to Manchester, for example, quoting
that reference, they would politely advise you to apply to the GRO.

Unless you know the name of the church, chapel or register office where
the wedding took place, and a rough date, there's no point applying to
the local registrars for marriage certificates, because most districts
don't have a centralised index.

And since the records for the old Chorlton district have been divided
between three different register offices, that's going to make the entry
even harder to find :-)

Hope this helps (a bit),

Brett Langston
The Family History Society of Cheshire
www.fhsc.org.uk

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