When my daughter was born in 1980 we had to go to the building on St. Helen's Road to
register the birth. However, when we'd attended a registry office wedding in 1975 the
ceremony was held in the Guildhall.
Hope this helps.
All the best,
Jane
From: Jeff.Coleman(a)ntlworld.com
To: andrew(a)transmat.co.uk; GLAMORGAN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 22:03:40 +0000
Subject: Re: [GLA] Swansea Registry Office Through The Ages
When I registered a birth in the late 1970s it was in what had been a large
Victorian house in St Helen's Road, possibly the one on the corner of
Brunswick Street.
Trying to search the phone directories on Ancestry it appears that the
Registrar of Births and Deaths may well have been a different person in a
different place from the Registrar of Marriages, up until quite recent
decades. Both were originally officers of the Poor Law Union, not of the
local authority.
Commercial Directories and Phone books may be the best place to find
addresses for particular dates. For example
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/ though you may need to be rather
patient!
In Victorian times if a local solicitor was appointed registrar it would
probably have been in his offices, I suspect. In the Swansea GENUKI pages,
you can see that in 1859 directory the superintendent registrar was at 5
Fisher Street (one of the streets that vanished in the blitz), as was the
Registrar for Marriages, whereas the Registrar of Births and Deaths was at
14 High Street.
www.swansea.gov.uk/cambrian shows that in 1837 the newly-appointed
registrars were surgeons and, for Gower, a farmer. In 1849 the registrar of
births and deaths was a maltster. The appointment of registrars and
complaints about the limited hours they were available feature in reports.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Pritchard" <andrew(a)transmat.co.uk>
To: "'Glamorgan List'" <GLAMORGAN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 3:56 PM
Subject: [GLA] Swansea Registry Office Through The Ages
> Hi
>
>
>
> I have a few marriage certificates which state the marriage took place at
> Swansea Registry Office. I know that this is currently in the Civic
> Centre
> on Oystermouth Road but I don't know where it was prior to this and when
> it
> moved.
>
>
>
> I'm guessing that it would probably have been in the Guildhall near St
> Helen's which opened on 23 October 1934 and before this in the Old
> Guildhall which opened in 1829, near the current marina.
>
>
>
> I anybody able to confirm this or let me know otherwise please?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Andrew
>
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