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District: Swindon

This is the information we hold about the Swindon Registration District.

Swindon Registration District has been in existence from June 1899 until the present day.

Counties

Swindon Registration District has been part of the following counties, by date.

Swindon Registration District has been part of the following counties, by date.
County Date range
Wiltshire From JUNE 1899

Volumes

Volume numbers used in Swindon Registration District, by date.

Volume numbers used in Swindon Registration District, by date.
Date range Volume
Year 1837 to 1851 -
Year 1852 to 1945 5a
Year 1946 to 1965 7c
Year 1966 to 1973 7c
Year 1974 to 1993_4 23

These date ranges reflect major reorganisations of the G.R.O.'s volume numbering system. Swindon Registration District may have come into existence at any date within the first date range specified. See the top of the page for the exact dates when the District was active. After 1993, volumes were replaced by District Numbers (see Other Information below).

Personal names

Here are links to pages listing all the distinct forenames and surnames found in Swindon Registration District:

Statistics

Statistics specific to Swindon Registration District:

Statistics for Swindon Registration District
Total Births 252368
Total Deaths 183051
Total Marriages 118949

Pages

The Swindon Page Map shows the expected volume number, and the ranges of page numbers encountered in the data, for each event type (birth, marriage and death) and quarter.

Other information

GRO District Number (post 1993) 796

Further information on Swindon

There is more information about Swindon on the UKBMD website. Please note that during the period this Registration District name was used there could be changes in which places were included within the district. The UKBMD page includes information on these changes.