even that site refers to the larger districts as 'civil registration districts', no mention if Superintendents.. but I get the idea, the local registrar's districts are the subdivisions of Poor Law Unions / Superintendent's Districts / Civil Registration Districts
Shane
I agree that there is a duality in the way the areas are described, which has I think confused many over the years. However, the link I gave does have a more exact description in a text box somewhat down the page on the right hand side, which does indeed mention Superintendent districts:
"each PLU became the basis for a Superintendent Registrar's District (SRD).
Just as each PLU was subdivided into Dispensary Districts, each with its own medical officer, so each SRD was subdivided into Registrar's Districts. Since the Registrar's District corresponded geographically to the Dispensary District, it was often the medical officer who took on the additional duties of the District Registrar. When not attending the sick and dispensing medicine, he was required to issue death, birth and marriage certificates and record appropriate entries in a register.
At the end of each quarter, the registers were forwarded to the District Superintendent Registrar who in turn made certified copies of the registers and sent them to the Dublin office of the Registrar General for Ireland. Civil Registration indexes covering the entire island were then made."
So it seems SRD = civil registration district, and the terminology I used earlier was a bit off the "official" usage.
