Hi Robin You can only get birth certificates after the start of Civil Registration on 1st July 1837. For events prior to this you need to search for baptisms, marriages and burials in the parish registers. Some of these are indexed, but not all. Polly ----- Original Message ----- From: "robin townsend" <robin-townsend@tiscali.co.uk> To: <eng-hereford@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 5:52 PM Subject: [HEF] Townsends Having trouble trying to tie in relatives. Is there any kind soul out there who has access to details / images (parents & ages etc. would be extremely helpful!) of the following: Birth certificate for James Townsend born about 1821 at Sollershope Marriage certificate for John Townsend - married 4/5/1820 at Llanwarne (to Ann Cooke I think) Birth certificate for John - born about 1791 at Brockhampton Hopefully I can prove that John is the father of James and tie in the dates / marriages Any help is much appreciated regards robin townsend -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 3996 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len ---- ENG-HEREFORD Mailing List ---- A genealogy and local history list covering the County of Hereford ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-HEREFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message