I seem to remember a Registrars Office situated on the corner of Bond Street and St Helens
Road. It would be the building which now houses a number of solicitors (next door to the
old church now the Imam Khoei Islamic Centre).
Incidentally, what was the name of that church and when did it close?
Tony
On 27 Nov 2013, at 22:26, Jane Hope <janehope-2008(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
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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