Each quarter a new registers were started by the GRO for all registration districts (Volume number) for each of births, deaths and marriages. Every sub registration district was allocated a range of page number each quarter and these numbers were repeated quarter after quarter. Example Marriage index Mar quarter 1891 Volume 6b Stafford pages were 1 - 43 Stone pages were 51 - 89 Newcastle L pages 93 - 127 and so on to West Bromwich which were pages 1009 - 1145 See Mike Foster's " A Comedy of Errors" http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mikefost/ for a detail explanation of how the registration system worked. Keith Wellington, NZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret thompson" <maggie09.thompson@ntlworld.com> To: <NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 2:04 AM Subject: Re: [NTT] death certificates > Hi can anyone explain why 2 relations who died 2 years apart would have > the same death registration number.ie Emma Bate died 1928 > 6b 487 and Joyce Bate died 1930 6b 487. Thank you.Maggie. > >