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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 | 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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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 1860s | - 1860s: Christian Revival Society
This Society was formed by William Booth.
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1878 | - 1878: Salvation Army
Christian Revival Society changed its name to the Salvation Army.
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1835 - 1892 (57 years)