Place:Camborne-Redruth Registration District, Cornwall, England

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NameCamborne-Redruth Registration District
TypeRegistration district
Located inCornwall, England     (1974 - 2007)

NOTE: Camborne-Redruth Registration District was formed in 1974 and replaced Redruth Registration District.

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A registration district in the United Kingdom is a type of administrative region which exists for the purpose of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths and civil partnerships. It has also been used as the basis for the collation of census information.

Origin and development (England and Wales)

Registration districts in England and Wales were created with the introduction of civil registration on 1 July 1837 and were originally co-terminous with poor law unions. Their existence as autonomous entities came to an end in 1930, when the relevant administrative county or county borough was made responsible. A subsequent series of reforms of local government has resulted in the responsibility today being held by the relevant county council, unitary authority, metropolitan district, or London borough.

Each district is divided into sub-districts, each of which has a registrar responsible for the registration of births, marriages, civil partnerships, and deaths in his or her area. Overall responsibility for a district is held by a superintendent registrar.

Registration districts are not always co-terminous with county boundaries, and so in the past were grouped into "registration counties" for statistical purposes. They remained in use for the census from 1851 to 1911.

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A registration sub-district was made up of several civil parishes (ancient parishes before 1866). Due to changes in population density, some civil parishes were formed during the period 1866-1930 from earlier parishes with different names and covering a somewhat different geographical area.