Location of Basford Register Office in 1919?

[jonw65]

My great grandparents married at Basford Register Office in 1919.

Out of interest, who was the registrar?

[Alexander.]

Good find, thanks for this.

Just checked the certificate and the marriage was performed by C. A. Attewell. Would this imply the marriage was in Loughborough Rd, West Bridgford?

[jonw65]

Hi
That could be Clarence Arthur.
I think it would be his home address. Probably the marriages were performed at those public offices?

[hanes teulu]

https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/166250/rec/16

I've been checking the 1910-1911 edition of Wrights

[Tickettyboo]

I believe that all the history about change of registration districts etc is a red herring.
Boundary changes were administration changes only, whether Registration Districts, Electoral Districts etc etc did not ( ?could not) affect the actual locations of places (and offices) Basford stayed where it was and if it had a Registry office that too stayed where it was.

If they moved the Registry Office then it would have a new name, no longer Basford but NewPlace Register Office? Otherwise no one would ever be able to find it :-)


Boo

[jonw65]

Wrights

Ooh, you are wright!
My mistake, Wright's Directory, not White's! Got my directories mixed up

[hanes teulu]

A 1913 newspaper item carries an article about the "... painting of the public offices in Nottingham Road, Basford, ..."

[hanes teulu]

https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/165825/rec/16

Public Offices - next No. 267 Nottingham Road

[Alexander.]

When Basford was transferred to Nottingham Registration District in 1899, a newspaper report confirms the unusual situation that the parish and its office were located outside the boundaries of the registration district with its name. See the excerpt from the Nottingham Daily Express, 1 Apr 1899.

Address search for 267 Nottingham Road, Basford, on the 1921 census confirms that this location was in Nottingham Registration District.

My understanding was that births and deaths had to be registered in the district in which they occurred. Assuming the marriage occurred at Public Offices, 267 Nottingham Road, this implies that if a marriage occurred at a register office which lay outside of the boundaries of its registration district, it was registered under the name of that office rather than the actual district in which it occurred. (?)