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I have a baptism of a child born in Liverpool....but he was baptised in London...it had the correct parents (not sure where the father was) but I think his mother was then living with gt.gt.gt grandfather
It also gives a Liverpool address
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Ancestry hold a number of Baptism entries. if you're lucky, the DOB has also been recorded.
Although they give the parent's names, the CofE ones do not give the mother's maiden name. Many of the Liverpool RC ones (often in latin) do tend to.
As baptisms may not occur straight after birth, the addresses and father's occupation reflect that at the time of the Baptism. This may be different to where the child was born.
The address may not be given in full, just an area or road/street.
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The best place to get any BMDs is the GRO in Southport, £9.25 all in
Many local registrars offices will charge £9.25-£9.50 plus about 50p P&P.
So the cheapest option is via GRO
NEVER buy from anywhere other than GRO or local offices.
Ancestry charges over £20.00 and some charge far more, they are ripping you off.....
And as said FreeBMD is just that FREE. And no matter which site you use, you cannot see any birth certificates online. Ancestry has some older London ones that you can view.
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Start off by following jax's advice. FreeBMD has image links - these links are not to the BMD.cert which you'll probably have to purchase, but to the GRO index page, which has the details you can quote in placing an order.
FreeBMD is essentially complete thru 1939 - the following are the incomplete quarters thru 1959:
Births Jun 1940 (77%) **************
Births Sep 1940 (0%) **************
Births Dec 1940 (97%) **
Births Sep 1943 (62%) **************
Births Dec 1943 (1%) **************
Births Dec 1945 (99%) *
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Births Sep 1958 (58%) **************
Births Dec 1958 (0%) **************
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Marriages Sep 1952 (51%) *******************
Marriages Dec 1952 (0%) *******************
At least 40% of quarters in each category in 1960s are essentially complete.
You should buy any certs you need via:
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
Some companies, e.g., Ancestry will place the order for you, but that will more than double the cost to you.
However, you can look up a birth, say, on Ancestry, and click on the shopping basket and see what they've entered on your order form.
You can back out if you don't fancy paying double, but you will learn the quarter when the event was regoe'ed.
You can then go to FreeBMD's homepage, and take their "view images" link to view the printed copy of the GRO index thru 1983.
It's a kludgy interface, and a bit of a pain, (so always check if it's been transcribed, as most transcriptions have a link to the image) but you will see the GRO index details that Ancestry omit from the order form (assuming you've no sub with them), like mum's maiden surname, spousal surname, age at death.
When an informant rego's a B or D, he goes to his local rego office, and signs the rego. Copies are made at the end of each quarter, and sent off to the GRO.
You can also go to a rego office to marry, and sign the rego there. If you're a non-conformist pre-1898 (exc jews/quakers), or RCs pre-1980ish, the registrar will come to you, and you will sign his rego.
For other marrs, the church has an official marr rego, and you can sign that in the church. Copies were sent to the local office, and there, more copies made for the GRO.
All the local and GRO entries are only viewable by purchase.
However, when a church rego is filled, it's sent to the local office to check against their copies, then sent on to some archive, usually the county records office.
There one can view these regos (or films of them).
Some local archive records are online - e.g., Westminster, Cheshire and Welsh rego's via FMP; Liverpool, London and Manchester rego's via Ancestry; FS has a subset of the Manchester set (not filly indexed), and the unindexed Durham Bishop's Transcripts (BTs are the church's own back-up copy).
See:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1®ion=UNITED_KINGDOM_IRELAND
in particular:
England, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1603-1910
England, Durham Diocese Bishop's Transcripts, ca. 1700-1900
Etc
Actually, one can buy a BMD.cert from the local office as well as the GRO (and m.certs from the church if it's in their current rego), although the GRO is the easiest.
Anyways, some local indexes are online, and the don't always index the same info as the GRO index (of course the actual certs are identical up to transcription errors), so they're always worth checking too, if available - see:
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/local_bmd
(but there's no free images here).
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Best to use Freebmd It more of less goes up to the end of the 1960s now
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Hi Jan
What subsciption/membership do you have on here?
Prickles.
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Hi I have not been on here for quite sometime but I am sure you could do a search and then see a free image of a birth - has it changed or do I need to upgrade my membership -thanks
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