Place:Banbury Registration District, Oxfordshire, England

Included parishes in Gloucestershire until 20 October 1844 and parishes in Hertfordshire until 1932.

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.

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. (Source:Wikipedia)

Research Tips

Brett Langston's list of Registration Districts in Oxfordshire and Brett Langston's list of Registration Districts in Gloucestershire will lead to specific parishes with dates.