CHATFIELD Family History Genealogy

UK Database Multi Searchable & Sortable

This new version enables you to search the whole table from the right hand side "Search", ("" can be used at the top but not at bottom) or from the bottom of the table for each column using the link on the left "Bottom of page."
The whole table takes some time unless you have a fibre connection.
On the left hand side you can select the number of records to be seen from per 50, 250, 500, 1000, or "All". "All" is 17,371 records.

This set of records may not look very interesting but it took me and others over forty five years to collect starting in 1987 and it is an ongoing project. We copied by hand from the original official central records (GRO) all the England and Wales Births from 1837 to 1925 and Marriages and Deaths to 1900. Also new are records from Scotland from 1855-Mar 2022. We also copied all the church records held by the Mormon church LDS records and many other official sources. We are still adding records and updating GRO information. Most of the Births, Marriages and Deaths up to 2021 have now been added with full index detail.

Working on finding mother and spouse from General Register Office marriage records can only confirm name of spouse if there is only one marriage with the same reference number in the quarter. If four or more people married then could be married to one of two people and further research is required regarding the death of spouse for example or surname of mother. New GRO records show mother's maidename where known from 1837-1934.

You can sort however you want using a combination of the global Search top right of table and Column Search at foot of table. For example by typing "Colin Myrtle" into Search the records will show records with both words. Thus alowing eaiser access to marital information.

Official Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths commenced in July 1837. Obligatory and punishable from 1875 so there are earlier births, marriages and deaths not recorded from 1837-1874. Age at death was included from 1866 enabling the year of birth to be worked out. This may not have been accurate as the deceased could not be asked! Births from Sep 1910 included only initial of second and more forenames on public index. Births from July 1911 included name of mother on public index. Spouse added in marriages from 1912 on public index. From 1966 the forenames were included again. Deaths from 2nd quarter 1969 included the date of birth. From 1984, the indexes are in annual instead of quarterly volumes. The indexes from 1984 give the month of registration as the first and second digits in the document reference number. e.g. 01.84. We show birth as 1984 01-Jan. Official age for marriage was 14 for girls and 16 for boys until 1929 when it was raised to 16 for both with permission of a parent and 21 without. Later on reduced to 18 without permission. A full explanation can be found by clicking on www.uk-bmd.org.uk.

Possible late entry
Normally GRO Index page numbers are numeric, optionally followed by a letter. As this page number ('2885/S') does not follow this format it is possible that it is a Late Entry. Late Entries mean that the registration of the event was delayed, e.g. parents did not attend the Register Office to record a birth but the birth was registered much later when the child was about to begin work, or an Inquest after a death prevented the immediate issuing of a death certificate. A Late Entry attempts to show a searcher where to look for the actual GRO reference. Unfortunately the format of such Late Entries is not standardised, but the usual pattern is a letter showing the Quarter of the Registration [March (M), June (J), September (S) or December (D)] followed by the last two digits of the year, thus giving the quarter and year when the Registration was entered into the GRO records. A reference that reads 'see J/75' would therefore indicate that the GRO registration and reference is probably to be found in the June Quarter of either 1875 or 1975 (depending on context).

Note: The file rarely gets larger with an update because single references are included for everybody up to 2021. In fact it usually goes down because the birth and or marriage and death are attributed to the same person. In mid January 2024 the year of birth for some people who died from 1853-1864 still have to be added. AGE_M and AGE_D (marriage and death) ages are calculated by the software from the year only and may be a year out. Copies of any certificate can be obtained by anyone online from the General Register Office for ₤11 with the Reference number, ₤14 without, or .pdf ₤7 and priority service for ₤35 as at Aug 2023.https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ Note: We adhere to data protection rules as the information on a certificate is not data protected. The actual certificate is copyright.

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