Birth, Marriage, Death Certificates

[pusskin]

Does any one know when these things started to be recorded?

Have googled and cant find anything i need to know.
Only how to trace records on Ancestry etc.

Thanks Abers x

[Old_Geezer]

Well if you look at the data at Ancestry I'm sure there is a date you can not get earlier than. And I don't believe it was compulsory to register in the earlier years.

[Barmaid]

Civil registration started in 1837 in England and Wales and 1858 in Scotland.

Parish registers (ie baptisms, marriages and burials) go back well before that. Officially they started in 1538.

[pusskin]

many many thanks for both replies. Much appreciated.
Hubbie wants to trace a certain Grandad and thinks he wont be able to trace him.
He I believe is now after a birth and Death cert. x

[DJHawkes]

don't let him order them from ancestry, send for them online to here:
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp

or even better, if yu can get to the register office that is holding the registers for the named district today, pop in and get it locally then and there

[Old_Geezer]

If you can pop in and get it you may find you get it unfolded !

[echokilo]

Also plenty of us have access to ancestry and other sites so if you want the details of this personlooking up so you have the full details to give to the registry office, just ask.