East Ward BMD

From 1837 people were suppose to register births, marriages and deaths. Two copies were made at the registry office - one that office kept and the other was sent to London. The London office has an index from which you can order certificates from the GRO. Some local registry offices have also made their indexes available online. Unfortunately Westmorland is not one of them. Sometimes mistakes were made. Some births were not registered especially in the earlier years as people thought that christening their children in church was the same as registering and also they were not punished for not registering. There are the ususal problems with name spelling and illegible writing !!!

The GRO indexes are available on this site :
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
It is free to use, you do not need to register.
Sheila, you need to click on the red box that says search down at the bottom.

So if you have a name on the census you can check the year of their birth on the birth certificate index.
With a marriage, by clicking on the last number you can see a list of possible partners so you might be able to work out a brides maiden name.
You can try to find out the year someone died.
You can see other possible relatives living in the same area.

The year is divided into four quarters - so if it says Dec. that means it was registered in October, November or December. If a birth was say registered in the October then the birth could have been in the September. You also need to know the district.

Orton is in the district called East Ward, of course it will also include other places. So I highlighted that in the list on the right.
Put the start date as Sept 1837 (earliest), finish date 1901. Put just surname as Garnett. Then press search. From that I compiled the following list.


Marriage DEC 1838 Thomas (Margaret Richardson)
Birth SEP 1839 Barbara
Marriage JUN 1840 Elizabeth (Robert Hadwen)
Birth MAR 1841 Thomas
Birth MAR 1841 Thomas
Birth SEP 1841 Dorothy
Birth MAR 1843 James
Birth SEP 1843 Margaret
Birth DEC 1844 William
Birth SEP 1845 Elizabeth Margaret
Birth JUN 1846 Christopher
Birth JUN 1846 Jane
Death JUN 1847 Jane
Birth JUN 1848 Elizabeth
Birth JUN 1848 Sarah
Birth JUN 1850 Joseph
Birth DEC 1850 Margaret Gill
Birth SEP 1852 Daniel
Marriage JUN 1853 John (Rachel Whitehead)
Death MAR 1854 Robert
Birth SEP 1854 John
Birth DEC 1854 Thomas
Birth MAR 1855 Anthony
Birth MAR 1857 Elizabeth
Birth Death JUN 1857 Mary Ann
Birth DEC 1858 Thomas
Marriage SEP 1860 Mary Jane (?)
Birth SEP 1862 Rebecca
Marriage SEP 1864 Elizabeth Margaret (?)
Birth MAR 1865 Jane
Death JUN 1867 Daniel age 14
Birth SEP 1867 Mary
Death MAR 1868 Elizabeth age 53
Birth JUN 1868 Robert
Marriage JUN 1869 Barbara (John Watt)
Death JUN 1870 Robert age 2
Death SEP 1871 Anthony age 16
Birth MAR 1872 Frederick
Birth SEP 1872 William
Birth SEP 1873 Elizabeth
Marriage DEC 1873 Elizabeth (?)
Death MAR 1875 Margaret age 64
Death SEP 1878 Thomas age 63
Birth DEC 1878 Polly
Death DEC 1878 Polly age 0
Birth DEC 1879 Thomas Dawson
Birth SEP 1881 Frederick Ripley
Death DEC 1882 Thomas Dawson age 1
Birth DEC 1882 Thomas
Death DEC 1882 Thomas age 0
Death MAR 1884 Elizabeth age 68
Death JUN 1884 Mary Jane age 10
Death MAR 1885 Thomas age 76
Marriage MAR 1896 Joseph (?)
Marriage SEP 1896 William John (Mary Jane Warwick)
Death Jun 1901 James age 60 (possibly ours)


Also for the surname Garnet
Marriage JUN 1841 Thomas (?)

I have highlighted the ones which we know belong to our Garnett family in red.