VPRS 11772 Marriage Returns

The Rules and Regulations issued under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Act required marriage celebrants to forward weekly returns of marriages to the Office of the Government Statist.The information recorded in the Register includes:* Denomination* Name of the Church and the location* Name of the Clergy* Number of marriages.This series comprises bound volumes of returns of marriages forwarded by the marriage celebrants to the Office of Government Statist.The series date range is imputed from contents in custody date range ie 1893 to 1963.