Thursday, September 08, 2005

The General Register Office of Ireland

The General Register Office - History

1845 was the first year in which marriages (other than Roman Catholic marriages) w ere registered and a total of 6114 marriages were registered in the last nine months of that year. The majority of these (4118) were according to the rites of the Established Church, 1586 were in Presbyterian Meeting Houses and 348 marriages were before Registrars of Marriages.

1864 was the first year for the registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (including Roman Catholic Marriages) and the totals for that year were as follows,
BIRTHS 136,643
DEATHS 94,095
MARRIAGES 27,373

1994 Statistics

BIRTHS 47,929
DEATHS 30,744
MARRIAGES 16,297

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