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TheGenealogist is the official site for Non-Conformist & Non-Parochial Records with the largest collection available online.

Access over 8 Million records including Quakers (Society of Friends), Methodists, Wesleyans, Baptists, Independents, Protestant Dissenters, Congregationalist, Presbyterians and Unitarians. This data proves invaluable for research prior to census and BMD records. The details give images of early birth certificates and registers which include baptisms, marriages and burials.

These Records and images are unique to S&N and can only be found on this site and on our official BMDregisters site.

We also have RG33: Foreign Registers & Returns 1627-1960 which contains Overseas Birth, Marriage, Death and Burial of British Subjects including those onboard ships. Also Lundy Island Devon. Original registers, notebooks and copies of entries in registers kept by incumbents of English churches and missions, British embassies and legations etc. This new record sets allows access to 100,000 individuals, complete with images and full transcript, complete with mini family tree.

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Non-Conformist Records

Online access to the Official Non-Parochial BMDs Service. Records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial taken from non parish sources:-Methodists, Wesleyans, Baptists, Independents, Protestant Dissenters, Congregationalist, Presbyterians, and Unitarians, Quakers and Fleet Marriages plus many more. The record sets included are:

RG4 – Early Registers (authenticated by the Non-Parochial Registers Commissioners) of births, baptisms, deaths, burials and marriages. They cover dates from 1567 to 1858.
RG5 – Early Birth Certificates from the Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist Registry and from the Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry. They cover dates from 1742 to 1840.
RG6 - The Society of Friends' (Quakers) Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials ranging from 1578-1841.
RG7 – Fleet Marriages. The collection of registers and notebooks of Clandestine Marriages and Baptisms in the Fleet Prison, King's Bench Prison, the Mint and the May Fair Chapel ranging from 1667-c1777.
RG8 – Early GRO Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to the Non Parochial Registers Commission of 1857. Among the more extensive collections in this series are the registers of the British Lying-in Hospital, Holborn, which record particulars of births and baptisms. These cover the period 1749 to 1868 and are very detailed. Burial records, registers of the Chapels Royal and the archive of the Russian Orthodox Church in London.
RG32: Registers Abroad and on British & Foreign Ships 1831-1969General Register Office:Overseas Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths and Burials Abroad and on British & Foreign ships, of British subjects, nationals of the colonies, the Commonwealth and countries under British jurisdiction. Also Lundy Island Devon and Channel Island records. Events affecting some foreign nationals are also included. Records consist mainly of certificates issued by foreign registration authorities, which are in local languages, and copies of entries kept by incumbents of English churches and missions, chaplains and burial authorities. These cover the period 1831 to 1969 and are very detailed.
RG33 - GRO:Overseas Birth, Marriage, death and Burial of British Subjects including those onboard ships. Also Lundy Island Devon. Original registers, notebooks and copies of entries in registers kept by incumbents of English churches and missions, British embassies and legations etc. These cover the period 1627 to 1960 and are very detailed.
RG34 - General Register Office: Worldwide Foreign Marriage Returns. More than 38,000 individuals are recorded in the overseas marriages records which include British subjects marrying abroad. These newly added records were previously only viewable on microfilm at The National Archives as the RG 34 series. Many of the marriage certificates were issued by the authorities in the country concerned in the local language. These have been translated to provide a searchable database and links to a digital image of the original record.
Included in this series you can find:
- Marriage registers of British churches abroad.
- There is also a collection of marriages between British soldiers in France, Flanders and Holland during and after the First World War, including many who had been prisoners of war.
The sources of these records covering British Citizens are worldwide and include marriage certificates issued by foreign registration authorities and churches, copies of entries in the registers kept by British embassies, incumbents of English churches and chaplains, notification of marriages of servicemen during service abroad, and documents deposited for safekeeping. These cover the period 1861 to 1921.
RG36 Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Protectorates etc of Africa and Asia Covering dates 1895-1965. Notifications of birth, marriage and death forwarded by officials responsible for civil registration under administrative ordinances in Nyasaland, Kenya, Somaliland, Uganda, Sudan, Palestine, Sarawak, Malaya, including Johore and Selangor, and British North Borneo.
BT158 Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages of Passengers at Sea. Covering dates 1854-1908.
BT159 Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Deaths at Sea of British Nationals. Covering dates 1875-1888
BT160 Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Births at Sea of British Nationals. Covering dates 1875-1891

RG8 (Early GRO Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths)

Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials of the Dissenting Chapel (later Unitarian) at Allostock, near Knutsford, Cheshire

Register of Baptisms at the Presbyterian Meeting House in South Shields, Northumberland from 1786 to 1857, with a Register of Marriages from 1845 to 1850, and a Register of Deaths

Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the Wesleyan Chapel in Brightlingsea, Essex from 1831 to 1859, with one Baptism record

Register of Births and Baptisms at Providence Chapel on Chadwell Street (later Northampton Tabernacle on Upper Rosoman Street) in Saint James Clerkenwell, Middlesex

Register of Births and Baptisms in the British Lying-In Hospital in Endell Street, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex from 1749 to 1754, with a Register of Deaths

Register of Births and Baptisms in the British Lying-In Hospital in Endell Street, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex from 1754 to 1758, with a Register of Deaths

Register of Births and Baptisms and a Register of Deaths in the British Lying-In Hospital in Endell Street, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex

Register of Births and Baptisms in the British Lying-In Hospital in Endell Street, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex

Register of Births and Baptisms and a Register of Deaths in the British Lying-In Hospital in Endell Street, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex

Register of Births and Baptisms in the British Lying-In Hospital in Endell Street, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex from 1784 to 1797, with a Register of Deaths

Register of Births and Baptisms in the British Lying-In Hospital in Endell Street, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex

Register of Births and Baptisms in the British Lying-In Hospital in Endell Street, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex from 1819 to 1868, with a Register of Deaths

Register of Births and Baptisms in the British Lying-In Hospital in Endell Street, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex

Register of Baptisms belonging to Edward Place Chapel (later called Langham Chapel) at Langham Place in St Marylebone, Middlesex

Register of Births and Baptisms at Gloucester Chapel, Haggerstone in St Leonard Shoreditch, Middlesex from 1832 to 1859, with a Register of Burials

Register of Births and Baptisms at the Ebenezer Chapel on Back Street (removed to Neckinger Road, Bermondsey in 1829) in St John Horselydown, Surrey

Whitehall: Chapel Royal; Licences for Marriages

Record of Licences for Marriages received from the Chapel Royal, Whitehall

Whitehall: Chapel Royal; Licences for Marriages

Register of Births and Baptisms at Chase Side (Dissenters) in Enfield, Middlesex from 1790 to 1871, with a Register of Burials

Register of Births at the Baptist Union Tabernacle in Diss, Norfolk from 1780 to 1834, with one Marriage record for 1796 and a Register of Deaths

Register of Births and Baptisms at the Methodist Chapel in Harbury, Warwickshire from 1802 to 1853, with a Register of Burials

Register of Births and Baptisms belonging to the Independent Chapel on Holborn Street, Holderness Road in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire from 1805 to 1847, with a Register of Marriages from 1838 to 1851, and a Register of Burials

Register of Births and Baptisms solemnized in Salem Independent Chapel on Cogan Street in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire from 1828 to 1901, with a Register of Marriages from 1837 to 1883, and a Register of Burials

Register of Births and Baptisms at Castle Street Meeting House of the Independent Denomination in St Mary's Swansea, Glamorganshire

Burial index only

Register of Births and Baptisms at Somerset House Chapel in St Mary Le Strand, Middlesex from 1722 to 1775, with a Register of Marriages from 1714 to 1776 and a Register of Burials

Register of Births and Baptisms at the Royal Chapels of St James, Whitehall and Windsor, Berkshire and Middlesex from 1647 to 1708, with a Register of Marriages from 1675 to 1709 and a Register of Deaths

Archives of the Russian Orthodox Church in London

Orders for Funerals at Gibraltar Row Protestant Dissenters Burial Ground in Bethnal Green, Middlesex

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