Year |
Certificate |
| 1788 |
• All baptisms, burials and marriage records
maintained by the church. |
| 1856 |
• 'Act for Registering Birth, Deaths and
Marriages' comes into effect.
• Registrar General takes possession of 1834
to 1835 records held by the Supreme Court. |
| 1879 |
• Clergy Returns Transfer Act passed.
• 1825 to 1855 baptism, marriage and burial
records lodged with Church of England Bishop were handed
over to the Registry. |
| 1912 |
• Reconciliation made between Registry and
Church records.
• 158 Volumes of Early Church Records created
with approximately 50,000 records.
• Registry requests access to the 1856 to
1895 church marriage registers. |
| Present day |
• The task of reconciling the Church Records
for marriages between 1856 and 1895 was never finalised.
Some of the Registry's marriage records from these years
still have missing information. |
In modern times the need to improve certificate production
methods and to preserve the original handwritten leather bound
Registers has required the Registry to capture the old historical
images to a computerised format.
Digital Images
From 1856 to 1952, birth death and marriage records have
been digitally captured and stored on a computerised system.
This enables the actual handwritten images to be reproduced
in a digital format.
Computerised Records
Birth records from 1952 to the present day have been recorded
and stored in an electronic format. Certificates from this
system will be computerised and not handwritten.
Death and marriage records from 1952 to the early 1990's
are currently held on microfilm and will be converted to digital
format in the near future.
All records currently are recorded into a computerised database.
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