NSW BDM reference number

[Jang]

Is there any significance in an entry in the NSW BDM index having a reference number such as V19122227 159? I have a vague recollection that it refers to a fiche?

[majm]

Is there any significance in an entry in the NSW BDM index having a reference number such as V19122227 159? I have a vague recollection that it refers to a fiche?

The NSW State Archives at Kingswood has the fiche, and I would anticipate that you are referring to an Early Church Record rather than a civil registration.  I suggest that because of the 'V' in the reference ... V as in Volume...  although if you were to venture to ask the call centre, they may think it is V for Vital, and perhaps not know that it is it (oops, how that get there - I edit to strike through !)  V for Volume.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/births-deaths-marriages/about-us/history-of-registry

and

https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/collections-and-research/guides-and-indexes/births-deaths-and-marriages-guide


and

https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/collections-and-research/guides-and-indexes/births-deaths-and-marriages-registers-1787-1856

JM   

[Jang]

Thanks JM, I thought I remembered such reference numbers on the fiche in the National Library years ago. But what threw me was the reference was for a 1912 birth:

SHELLEY  ENID   2227/1912 V19122227 159   CHARLES R   ALICE

which suggests there must be a church record for this birth?

Yes, another candidate for my elusive Enid Coulson :-)

Jan

[majm]

 

Well that looks very much like it is indexng a baptism 

JM

[Jang]

It probably is a baptism - I've just found a birth registration in Qld!

Enid Shelley
Event date: 09/06/1912
Event type: Birth registration
Registration details: 1912/B/29262
Mother: Alice Lillian Dinny
Father/parent: Charles Richard Shelley

[majm]

... yes, Miss Enid will be found when she is ready to be found, and not a moment earlier.

JM