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District: Wycombe

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

Wycombe Registration District has been in existence from September 1837 until December 1998.

Counties

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

Wycombe Registration District has been part of the following counties, by date.
County Date range
Buckinghamshire From SEPTEMBER 1837
Oxfordshire From SEPTEMBER 1837

Volumes

Volume numbers used in Wycombe Registration District, by date.

Volume numbers used in Wycombe Registration District, by date.
Date range Volume
Year 1837 to 1851 6
Year 1852 to 1945 3a
Year 1946 to 1965 6a
Year 1966 to 1973 6a
Year 1974 to 1993_4 19

These date ranges reflect major reorganisations of the G.R.O.'s volume numbering system. Wycombe Registration District may have come into existence at any date within the first date range specified, and abolished at any date within the last date range. 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 Wycombe Registration District:

Statistics

Statistics specific to Wycombe Registration District:

Statistics for Wycombe Registration District
Total Births 239678
Total Deaths 173078
Total Marriages 118540

Pages

The Wycombe 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) 327

Further information on Wycombe

There is more information about Wycombe 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.