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Title: Family Notices
Post by: bloodties on Wednesday 21 April 10 14:59 BST (UK)

Hi
  In the 1800s were family notices( birth/marriage/death) put in the local paper?

                thanks Daphne

Title: Re: Family Notices
Post by: aghadowey on Wednesday 21 April 10 15:05 BST (UK)

Very broad question- What part of the 1800s?
In general very few birth, mostly death and some marriage notices put in papers. To give an example: Londonderry Sentinel 1829-1869 included 6800 births, 9900 marriages and 18700 deaths.
Answer also depends on where the family lived, what newspaper they read or if they were poor/uneducated, and in case of weekly paper the day of death and funeral in relationship to date of paper.
Up until 1920s for some areas deaths were still 'announced' by printed letters rather than newspaper announcements (especially if local paper was only weekly).

Title: Re: Family Notices
Post by: bloodties on Wednesday 21 April 10 18:00 BST (UK)

Hi aghadowey

      thank you  for your reply. Sorry should have been more pacific the decade
      1870S in Belfast/ lisburn areas some had jobs as bookseller or clerks.
                 thanks
                       Daphne