Monday, 14 May 2012

Yorkshire civil registration history

Audrey Collin has an interesting look at the early days of civil registration in Huddersfield on her The Family Recorder blog at http://thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/early-civil-registration-huddersfield.html. The post is a follow up to two recent pieces looking at early civil registration in Yorkshire, which can be read at http://thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/civil-registration-early-problems-in.html and http://thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/civil-registration-in-yorkshire-update.html. Not everybody was desperate to adopt the new system so quickly in 1837!

Chris

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2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the mention, Chris. It's good to know that I'm not the only one who finds this stuff interesting. My co-author and so-called friend Dave Annal once introduced one of my talks by saying 'What Audrey doesn't know about early civil registration isn't worth knowing - and quite a lot of what she does know isn't worth knowing either'. (OK, I had to admit that was quite funny).

    I'm continuing to dig into this Yorkshire material when I get the chance, and it seems that the Poor Law Commissioners were the real enemy, and the fledgling registration system just got caught in the cross-fire.

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