What is the civil registration for births, marriages and deaths?
In England and Wales, before the first of July, 1837, when somebody was born they were generally baptized. And each church had to keep registers of baptisms, and also of marriages and of burials. But in 1837 a centralized system was introduced in England and Wales for the first time, recording the registrations of births, marriages and deaths. And in Scotland it started in 1855 and in Ireland in 1864.
