VPRS 18571 Registration Districts Defined

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This series was created to keep a record of the boundaries of the registration districts used to register births, deaths and marriages.

The registration districts were created under the provisions of an Act for Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in the Colony of Victoria 1853 No. 26.


The Lieutenant Governor of the Colony with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, may for the purposes of this Act from time to time appoint, and as occasion may require, remove a Chief Registrar and Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and may by proclamation in the Government Gazette divide the said Colony into Districts, and assign the said Colony and Districts to the said Chief Registrar and Deputy Registrars respectively, or to so many of them as he may think fit, and may define the limits of such Districts ; and from time to time revoke vary and alter such division, and the limits of such districts, and from time to time appoint an office as a General Registry Office, and so many other fit and proper offices as may be necessary for keeping a register of all Births, Deaths, and Marriages, of the Inhabitants of the said Colony, and may revoke and alter such appointments.

Each record contains the name of the district. What information is given about each varies. Some have a handwritten description of the boundaries of the district with or without a handwritten/printed map of the area. Some have copies of the proclamation from the Government Gazette stuck in. Some just refer to correspondence or gazette numbers.

An alphabetical index of districts is included at the front of the volume referring to page numbers within the volume.