On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 06:20:59 +1000 "B. Edmonds" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello B., >In the GRO Index for Births, if the Reg Dist. is recorded at Plympton >St Mary Union, does this mean that the child was born at the Union >House? No personal experience of Plympton St Mary Union RD, but Epping Union RD does not imply birth at a Union house. I'd expect the same to apply here. As an aside; RD's are big areas. What they're called doesn't always reflect the areas they cover. They (RDs) can cross county borders, for example. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" It's only the children of the ------- wealthy tend to be good looking Ugly - The Stranglers

Registration districts were based on the 'Unions' formed by the new Poor Law of 1834. They were districts each consisting of several parishes obliged to band together to build a collective workhouse, which was cheaper for all concerned. When registration came in presumably it was administratively easier to use the same set up geographically as was being used for the administration of the Poor Law. So no it doesn't mean the child was born in the union workhouse - all the Registration districts were unions. Pam S. -----Original Message----- From: DEVON [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad Rogers Sent: 14 November 2016 20:48 To: Devon ML Subject: Re: [DEV] Union House On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 06:20:59 +1000 "B. Edmonds" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello B., >In the GRO Index for Births, if the Reg Dist. is recorded at Plympton >St Mary Union, does this mean that the child was born at the Union >House? No personal experience of Plympton St Mary Union RD, but Epping Union RD does not imply birth at a Union house. I'd expect the same to apply here. As an aside; RD's are big areas. What they're called doesn't always reflect the areas they cover. They (RDs) can cross county borders, for example. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" It's only the children of the ------- wealthy tend to be good looking Ugly - The Stranglers ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message