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| 1 | 1741 | - 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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| 2 | 1829 | - 1829: Catholic Emancipation Act
This Act ended all statutory religious, political and social persecutions of Roman Catholics.
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| 3 | 1832 | - 1832: Reform Act
Gave the voting franchise to many more people and introduced electoral registers.
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 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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1817 - 1858 (41 years)