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District: Birmingham

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

Birmingham Registration District has been in existence from December 1932 until the present day.

Counties

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

Birmingham Registration District has been part of the following counties, by date.
County Date range
Warwickshire From DECEMBER 1932
West Midlands (from Jun1974) From JUNE 1974

Volumes

Volume numbers used in Birmingham Registration District, by date.

Volume numbers used in Birmingham Registration District, by date.
Date range Volume
Year 1837 to 1851 -
Year 1852 to 1945 6d
Year 1946 to 1965 9c
Year 1966 to 1973 9c
Year 1974 to 1993_4 32

These date ranges reflect major reorganisations of the G.R.O.'s volume numbering system. Birmingham 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 Birmingham Registration District:

Statistics

Statistics specific to Birmingham Registration District:

Statistics for Birmingham Registration District
Total Births 1254945
Total Deaths 1199028
Total Marriages 829093

Pages

The Birmingham 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) 061
Alternate names for District
  • birmingham

Further information on Birmingham

There is more information about Birmingham 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.