1741—1837: Protestant Dissenters' Registry A registry for Protestant events was set up at Dr. Williams Library in London, closed 1837 with 50,000 entries.
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1829
1829: Catholic Emancipation Act This Act ended all statutory religious, political and social persecutions of Roman Catholics.
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1832
1832: Reform Act Gave the voting franchise to many more people and introduced electoral registers.
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1834
1834: Poor Law Amendment Act The commencement of the second period of poor relief in England and Wales. The old parish system of poor relief was abolished and the first Boards of Guardians of the poor was introduced.
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1837
1 Jul 1837: Civil Registration The start of the General Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England and Wales.
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1841
1841: First Nominal Census This census was the first to require the names of all members of a household to be recorded along with a generalized statement of place of birth and the provision for the rounding down of ages over 15 by 5 years to the nearest 0 or 5, e.g. a person aged 59 was to be recorded as aged 55 and a person aged 23 was to be recorded as aged 20. Occupation was also included but no relationships of the individuals within a household to the head of the house was made until 1851. The nominal census returns continued decennially to 1911 being the latest census to be released to the public arena.
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1859
1 Jan 1859: Principal Probate Registry The Registry was established and the jurisdiction of proving Wills and granting of probates was removed from the ecclesiastical courts to the District and general Probate Registries as of 1 January.
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1860s
1860s: Christian Revival Society This Society was formed by William Booth.
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1872
1872: Secret Parliamentary Elections Until this date, poll books were considered to be public records, revealing how a person had voted.
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1875
1 Jan 1875: Amendment to Civil Registration This amendment made registration of births, marriages and death compulsory, imposed a penalty for late registration and no longer permitted inclusion of a father's name on the birth certificate of an illegitimate child unless that father was present at the registration of the birth.
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1878
1878: Salvation Army Christian Revival Society changed its name to the Salvation Army.
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1899
1899: Methodist Marriages Official Methodist marriage registers were first introduced.
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1910
1910: Lloyd George's "Domesday" An Act that imposing a duty on the increase in value of land when sold creating millions of records required for the full and proper administration of the Act.
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1972
1972: United Reformed Church Most Congregationalists accepted union with the Presbyterians to form the United Reformed Church.
1826 - 1909 (82 years)