Hi Paul, Many thanks indeed for this extra information. It paints such a different picture to the one I had and also explains a number of problems encountered in the past. So presumably records from a rural area would be more complete as people were more likely to know each other than those in urban areas where populations could 'hide' in over-crowded accommodation. Edward On 14 June 2012 08:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Please delete any irrelevant notes when replying to this digest. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Registry Office for Llanrhystud CGN (Edward Llewellyn-Jones) > 2. Re: Registry Office for Llanrhystud CGN (Paul Vivash) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:56:07 +0100 > From: Edward Llewellyn-Jones <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Dyfed] Registry Office for Llanrhystud CGN > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]om > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 13 June 2012 08:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Please delete any irrelevant notes when replying to this digest. > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Registry Office for Llanrhystud CGN (Edward Llewellyn-Jones) > > 2. Re: Registry Office for Llanrhystud CGN (Paul Vivash) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Hi Paul > Many thanks for the reply - very helpful. It's these details that rarely > get mentioned and yet they would have been quite important to a family > member who had to take on the reporting, especially if they had to walk a > number of miles. Thankfully not in this case. > Edward > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:31:54 +0100 > From: "Paul Vivash" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Dyfed] Registry Office for Llanrhystud CGN > To: "Edward Llewellyn-Jones" <[email protected]>, "Dyfed > List" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=response > > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the DYFED list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the DYFED mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of DYFED Digest, Vol 7, Issue 152 > ************************************* >