News
3rd April 1995
General Register Office (Dublin) celebrates 150th anniversary
of Civil Registration
With a reception held at its Lombard Street West, Dublin, premises,
the General Register Office (Ireland) today marked the 150th anniversary
of the beginning of civil registration in Ireland. It was on the 1st April
1845 that the Marriage Act 1844 came into operation and from
that date forward all civil, non-Catholic & Jewish marriages have
been civilly recorded. Because of the Catholic Church's unwillingness
to accept what it saw as state interference in its affairs, it was not
until January 1864 that marriages solemnised by the Catholic clergy was
also entered on to the civil register. Also from January 1864 all births
and deaths were registered too. The occasion of this important anniversary
was marked by the unveiling of a plaque and the publishing of a booklet
entitled Registering The People - 150 Years of Civil Registration
which can be seen here
on the Internet.
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