Series S4079 - INDEXES - BIRTH, DEATH AND MARRIAGE REGISTRATION

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AU WA S4079

Title

INDEXES - BIRTH, DEATH AND MARRIAGE REGISTRATION

Date(s)

  • 1841-01-01 - (Creation)
  • 1841 - 1905 (Accumulation)

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Various - see descriptive note

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Name of creator

AU WA A273 - REGISTRY OFFICE (1841-01-01 - 1881-01-01)

Administrative history

The Registry Office was established in 1841 with a Registrar General as its chief officer, to administer the requirements of the Act to register births, deaths and marriages in Western Australia.

Name of creator

AU WA A278 - REGISTRY DEPARTMENT (1881-01-01 - 1896-01-01)

Administrative history

The Registry Department was responsible for the registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages within the Swan River Colony.

The Department was also responsible for the collection and reporting of statistical information. (A Government Statistician was first appointed in February 1896 in the succeeding Registrar General's Department).

Name of creator

AU WA A279 - REGISTRAR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT (1896-01-01 - 1901-01-01)

Administrative history

The 1894 Act repealed the 1841 Act to register births, deaths and marriages and allowed for the establishment of District Registrars each with a defined district. From 1906 births, deaths and marriages are recorded by district and number. With the establishment of the Commonwealth combined with the Government Statisticians Office until 1957.

Name of creator

AU WA A280 - REGISTRAR GENERAL'S AND GOVERNMENT STATISTICIAN'S DEPARTMENT (1901-01-01 - 1957-06-30)

Administrative history

Previously the Registrar General's Department, it combined with the Government Statisticians Office upon federation in 1901. The Department remained as such, and responsible to the Colonial Secretary's Office and its successor, the Chief Secretary's Department until 1957 when the two functions were split. The Registrar General's office was created to operate as a Division of the Chief Secretary's Department and its successors.

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Scope and content

The records in this series comprise an archival set of indexes to birth, death and marriage registration.

Items 1 - 3 consists of microfiche, although the State Records Office also retains a copy of item 3 as a bound volume. Item 4 is in the format of a bound volume only.

Birth, death and marriage registrations can be searched via the website of the Department of the Attorney General (see Briding Aids below). The State Records Office also holds a microfiche copy of the Registrar General's Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages. This index is accessible to members of the public at the State Records Office Search Room.

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Numerical

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Open

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Open access

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Finding aids

Birth, death and marriage registrations can be searched via the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Online Index.

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