Birmingham Register Offices

[badpenny]

I am trying to find the locations of all the Birmingham register offices since registration was introduced from 1837.

I only know of three, Holiday Street, Broad Street and Edmund Street.

How many were there before that and where would they have been, any ideas?

 

[Vivienne14]

There are threads on the various Register offices, the Edmund Street one, and in particular its location, was discussed here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/register-office-edmund-street.48141/

Pre Edmund Street there was one in Newhall Street, but I don't think there's much information about it. Be interesting to find out more about the Newhall Street office, if anyone can offer information.

And as you say there was until relatively recently the Broad St office. Now that's been demolished and moved to Holliday Street.
Viv.

 

[badpenny]

Hello Viv,

So, Newhall Street it is then as the earliest register office, i wonder if they dealt with Aston events as well?

Might be worth merging this thread with that highlighted above.

Badpenny..

 

[mikejee]

Each area had its own sub registrar at one time. Also registrars for marriages were not necessarily the same as those for births and deathasThus from 1900 Kellys:

 

[pjmburns]

I think Aston had its own until the 1920s. I was surprised when I sent for a marriage certificate which came back with the 1911 marriage at Aston Registry Office.

 

[DavidGrain]

Also remember that the Register offices were based on the old Poor Law unions. Birmingham North was the old Birmingham Poor Law Union and Birmingham South was the old Kings Norton Poor Law Union. I have three relatives, husband and wife and son who all lived in Smethwick, who all died within three weeks of each other in the early 1930s. One died at home so was recorded as Birmingham South (Smethwick was in the Kings Norton Union) and two were taken less than a mile to Dudley Road Hospital and were registered as Birmingham North

 

[Bojalu]

The Edmond Street Register Office - Although B.M.D's records were housed in the same building , there were two separate doors one to register B.M.D's in Birmingham the other door to register B.M.D's for Aston.

 

[Tamsin_Reg_Hist]

Good morning

I'm a new member (just joined but have read bits of the forum for years) so my apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place.

I'm a Registrar at Birmingham Register Office as well as being an Historian, and I'm aiming to write a book for our 200th anniversary in 2037 about 200 years of the Birmingham Register Office. I'm doing okay on primary and secondary research so far (having only started 2 weeks ago...) but I'm struggling to get specific Birmingham memories. Does anyone have any memories of working at/registering at/getting married at any of the Birmingham Register Offices, or stories of family members? I'd appreciate any information you might have.

 

[Scarlett864]

Can anyone who got married in the early 1980's or gave notice to marry at that time tell me about the layout of the Birmingham Register Office on Broad Street please? Where in the building was notice to marry given? and was it just at an open desk in a waiting area? or through a kiosk? or in a private office? Many thanks

 

[pjmburns]

As far as I can remember I went in a door on the left to a reception desk.
We got married in Shirley but as my husband to be lived in Birmingham we had to give notice and collect some paperwork later.
I don't remember an office of any sort. I can't even remember what form we had to fill in.

 

[Scarlett864]

As far as I can remember I went in a door on the left to a reception desk.
We got married in Shirley but as my husband to be lived in Birmingham we had to give notice and collect some paperwork later.
I don't remember an office of anybsort. I can't even remember what form we had to fill in.

Thank you for this reply. Much appreciated.

 

[Lady Penelope]

I believe my birth was registered at Birmingham North. Would this be the Aston Office? My parents lived in Erdington.

When I googled an enquiry it also gave Newhall Street as a previous location but I'm not sure about this one.

 

[pjmburns]

As far as I can tell (using Freebmd info) Aston existed as a reg area until 1924
Then Birmingham North and South between 1924 and 1932. Then just Birmingham.
Not sure where the actual offices were.