Probably off-message for this list (sorry) but does anyone know how to obtain access to the records of British Embassy chapels? (Just found a reference to a marriage at the Paris embassy chapel in 1842.) SANDRA LOVEGROVE Researching LOVEGROVEs in all places and at all times. Please do visit the LOVEGROVE Information Centre on http://www.lovegrove.org.uk

Good Afternoon Sandra - I'll put this to the list as it may be of interest to some of our researchers? Never come across this one, except that when my daughter was born in Berlin, her birth was registered with the British Consulate and the BAOR HQ issued the appropriate birth certificate, which was then recorded at the GRO. There had to be a special certificate signed by the consulate before a certificate was issued. A search on British Embassy Chapels returns nothing. I might suggest a visit to your local registrar as they should have some information? Kind Regards June & Roy (SANHS Member No 1066) http://www.btinternet.com/~roy.cox/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: Sandra Lovegrove [mailto:sandra@lovegrove.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:36 AM To: OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [OEL] Not very old, nor English Probably off-message for this list (sorry) but does anyone know how to obtain access to the records of British Embassy chapels? (Just found a reference to a marriage at the Paris embassy chapel in 1842.) SANDRA LOVEGROVE Researching LOVEGROVEs in all places and at all times. Please do visit the LOVEGROVE Information Centre on http://www.lovegrove.org.uk ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== OLD-ENGLISH Web Page http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/

In message <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAhE8CT1AVkES4n n1C4wtrT8KAAAAQAAAALYFPoVDVfEung+4S6vROcAEAAAAA@btinternet.com>, Roy <roy.cox@btinternet.com> writes >Good Afternoon Sandra - > >I'll put this to the list as it may be of interest to some of our >researchers? > >Never come across this one, except that when my daughter was born in Berlin, >her birth was registered with the British Consulate and the BAOR HQ issued >the appropriate birth certificate, which was then recorded at the GRO. There >had to be a special certificate signed by the consulate before a certificate >was issued. Records of events to English and welsh subjects abroad which came within the notice of the consul (and one at the Embassy chapel had to) should be reported back to England and appear in the Consular Returns fiches which come at the end of a complete set of GRO indexes (including the 'Miscellaneous' sections. Try your nearest major county reference Library (or the FRC, or Kew, etc) > -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

Sandra, I also have a marriage in the Paris Embassy Chapel in 1829 - in this case they had a Faculty Office Marriage Licence issued three weeks before the marriage. I can't remember where I got this information from unfortunately. Nuala ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Lovegrove" <sandra@lovegrove.org.uk> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:35 AM Subject: [OEL] Not very old, nor English > Probably off-message for this list (sorry) but does anyone know how to obtain > access to the records of British Embassy chapels? (Just found a reference to a > marriage at the Paris embassy chapel in 1842.)