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GAY FAMILY HISTORY and BUNKER FAMILY HISTORY |
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The aim of this site
is to trace (1) all, or as many as
possible of, the author’s ancestors, of which THOMAS GAY (1763?–1838?) and
JOHN BUNKER (1740’s–1815) are the principal
ones, and (2) all, or as many as
possible of, their descendants the site is constantly being updated, especially now
that the 1911 census of |
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PEOPLE
WHO EMIGRATED, OR MOVED WITHIN THE |
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Š N O T E S ► SEVERAL BIRTH/MARRIAGE/DEATH CERTICATES ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE PEOPLE LISTED ► LIVING PEOPLE ARE NOT SHOWN UNLESS THEY REQUEST TO BE ► DATES OF BAPTISM ARE ONLY GIVEN WHERE KNOWN AND WHERE THE DATE
OF BIRTH IS NOT KNOWN ► IN CENSUS PAGES, ALL ADDRESSES ARE IN ENGLAND UNLESS OTHERWISE
STATED “SERVANT”, “LODGER”, ETC. MEANS WAY FROM HOME, AT ANOTHER ADDRESS ► PLACES IN ENGLAND ARE SHOWN AS IN THEIR HISTORICAL COUNTIES,
SO LONDON IS SHOWN AS BEING IN MIDDLESEX, WHILST THE REST OF PRESENT DAY
GREATER LONDON IS SHOWN AS BEING DIVIDED BETWEEN ESSEX, KENT, MIDDLESEX AND
SURREY ► A QUESTION MARK AFTER A PIECE OF DATA OFTEN JUST MEANS THAT
THE DATA IS NOT 100% DEFINITE, JUST AN INTELLIGENT GUESS |
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THE ENGLAND AND WALES
BIRTH, MARRIAGE AND DEATH NATIONAL REGISTRATION SYSTEM REGISTRATION
DISTRICTS, REGISTER OFFICES AND QUARTERS A ALSO THE UKBMD SITE FOR AN
EXPLANATION The
indexes to the national registers, which started in 1837, when the
national registration system began, and which are freely available to the
public, also online, show the REGISTRATION DISTRICT in which the event
happened, NOT THE ACTUAL PLACE – registration districts can often cover wide
areas - even places in more than one county – and often have a name which has
little bearing to the places it contains. They also often change. The
birth/marriage/death certificate, which must be paid for, shows the actual
place in which the event happened. |
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For
example, the marriage register might show: SMITH, JOHN STROOD [REGISTRATION DISTRICT] whereas
the actual certificate will say he got married in Northfleet,
Kent is a good example of the registration district name being misleading –
Northfleet, although a medium sized town in its own right, over the years has
been in the North Aylesford (15 km away), Strood (10 km away), Strood &
Hoo, and Dartford (7 km away) registration districts, although it is some
distance away from all of those towns The
REGISTER OFFICE is the main office in the registration district, and is the
place where non-church, or civil weddings, take place. QUARTERS:
until 1984, there were four registers per year, one for every quarter (Q1
Jan-Feb-Mar, Q2 Apr-May-June, Q3 Jul-Aug-Sep, Q4 Oct-Nov-Dec). |
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The
register will show, for example, a marriage in Apr-May-June – this means that
the marriage took place in the SECOND QUARTER, NOT NECESSARILY IN JUNE
– again, a big difference. Marriages
are listed in the quarter that they actually took place – births and deaths
can however be REPORTED AFTER THEY TOOK PLACE, so if for example a birth or
death is shown in the register for one quarter, it may actually have taken
place in the previous quarter, and if it happens in December of one year, in
may actually show up in the register for the first quarter of the following
year. Since
1984, the actual month of registration has been quoted, not the quarter. BAPTISM
and BIRTH DATES Before
1837, in most cases only the date of BAPTISM was recorded, NOT THE DATE OF
BIRTH. Although the baptism normally took place shortly after the birth, the
latter can sometimes have taken place some time before – there are often
examples of two or more children being baptized on the same day, without
their being necessarily twins – perhaps the parents got a bulk discount for
having them all done together. Also, as with the national register of births,
children baptised in, say, January might have been born in December of the
previous year. So, if a child is BAPTIZED IN YEAR X, although it was PROBABLY
BORN IN THE SAME YEAR, IT IS NOT DEFINITE – again, a big difference, which
some researchers ignore. So any cases where a child is shown as born in a
particular year, especially before 1837, may mean that is was really BAPTIZED
in that year, and that the ACTUAL YEAR OF BIRTH IS UNKNOWN |
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Care
must therefore be taken when consulting
certain people’s data, as it is often formulated differently, for
example “June 1933” might really mean “Q2 1933”, ie. the quarter
Apr-May-June, not the actual month of June; “Newham, Essex” might really mean
“Newham, Essex Registration District”, not the actual place called Newham –
trees to which there is NO link here may contain misleading information or
serious mistakes |
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AUTHOR: LES COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS WELCOMED |
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SITE
ORIGINALLY SET UP JULY 2008 PAGE UPDATED |
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