Hi again, Edward! I think I should have amplified my reply to your original query which related to the 1840s. Although Civil Registration commenced in 1837, it was only in 1874 that the onus was placed on parents (for births) and family (for deaths). Before this the responsibility lay with the local registrars whose duty was to actively collect information and they were paid according to their success. There was no penalty for not registering a birth or death, so records from this time are incomplete, possibly a third of the population is missing from these early records. This, of course, underlines the fact that there would be no need for an individual to travel from Llanrhystud to Aberystwyth or indeed any incentive to register a death unless details were requested by the local registrar. I imagine though that there would have been a close liaison between church and registrars since from the 16th century it had been a requirement to maintain parish registers which, of course, recorded all baptisms, marriages and burials. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Vivash" <[email protected]> To: "Edward Llewellyn-Jones" <[email protected]>; "Dyfed List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:22 AM Subject: Re: [Dyfed] Registry Office for Llanrhystud CGN > Hi Edward! > > As you correctly imply Llanrhystud came within the registration district > of > Aberystwyth but there would have been a local registrar who would be > responsible for recording details of the death and reporting them to the > superintendant registrar of the district. There would be no need for > individuals themselves to travel the 8 or 9 miles to Aberystwyth. > > Paul > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Edward Llewellyn-Jones" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:48 PM > Subject: [Dyfed] Registry Office for Llanrhystud CGN > > >>I wonder if someone might know where a person would have to go to register >> a death, in this case, if they were living in Llanrhystud in the 1840s? >> Where was the nearest office? Would they have to walk to Aberystwyth? I >> have presumed most people would have to walk a reasonable distance to >> register a BMD especially if they lived in the countryside, but was there >> a >> maximum distance between registries in those days? >> Thanks >> Edward >> >> ================================ >> Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >