Parish Baptism Registers
Typically, a pre-1813 register recorded the date, name, names of parents, and possibly the father's occupation. Occasionally the street or area in which they lived was also noted. The date of birth was not normally given. The maiden name of the mother, if married, is never entered.

From 1 January 1813 a new type of register was introduced, known as George Rose's Register. The entries followed a standard format, in bound volumes with pre-printed pages. The information recorded included the date of baptism, child's name, parents' names, address, which may just be the name of the parish or street, father's occupation and the name of the officiating minister. The alleged date of birth may sometimes be noted.

Parish Burial Registers
Burial entries until the end of 1812 were usually only very brief. They gave the date and the name of the person to be buried. Occasionally, family relationships such as 'wife of' or 'son of' may be noted. It may be recorded if the burial was that of a child or baby or from the workhouse (pauper or poor). Occupations are rarely given. From 1 January 1813 new format registers were introduced. As with the baptism registers, the pages were pre-printed and bound in a volume. The name of the deceased, address, date of burial, age and officiating minister were given.

Parish Marriage Registers
After Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753 a standard form of entry for marriages was introduced in 1754. The information recorded was the date, the names of both parties, the parish in which they lived, whether the marriage was by banns or licence and whether spinster, bachelor, widow or widower. On the introduction of civil registration on 1 July 1837 a new type of register was produced. The entries gave the date, names of the parties, addresses, occupations and ages. Civil marriages, those held in Register Offices, also began in July 1837.

Bishops' Transcripts
Bishops' Transcripts are copies of entries in the baptism, marriage and burial registers. They were made by churchwardens once a year and returned to the Bishop's Registry.

Bishops' Transcripts for marriages cease, on the whole, after civil registration was introduced in July 1837. Bishops' Transcripts for baptisms and burials cease at various dates between the 1830's and 1900.