Birth Marriage and Death Registration Quarters (General)

by admin , Forest of Dean, Friday, November 11, 2011, 05:09 (4765 days ago) @ mrsbruso

Centralized government registration of births began for England and Wales in July 1837. Parents were required by law to register the birth of their child within 42 days (6 weeks) of the birth.

The BMD indexes are divided into four registration quarters for each year. So, the March quarter contains events registered in January, February and March, the June quarter includes events registered in April, May and June and so on for September and December.

Note that it is the date when the event is registered that is recorded in the index, so if a child was born in December but not registered until January, they would appear in the March quarter of the following year.