STATE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES & DEATHS
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Maritime Records: From 1864 up to the present, the General Register Office has kept a separate "Marine Register" of births and deaths of Irish subjects which took place at sea. From 1886 only, a printed index to this register is bound into the back of the births and deaths index for each year. For earlier registers, the indexes have to be requested from the staff in the Office. No separate register was kept for marriages at sea.

Army Records: The "Births, Deaths and Marriages (Army) Act" of 1879 required these events to be registered with the Office of the Registrar-General in Dublin, where they affected Irish subjects serving in the British army abroad. Separate Indexes, bound into the backs of the main yearly Indexes, start from 1888 and continue until 1930 for births, and 1931 for marriages and for deaths. The deaths index for 1902 also contains an index to "Deaths of Irish Subjects pertaining to the South African War (1898-1902)".

The Foreign Register: From 1864, the General Register Office was required to keep a separate register of births of Irish subjects abroad, where such births were notified to the relevant British consul. There is no index to this register, which is small, and is not available in the public research room. It may be requested from the staff of the Office.

The Schulze Register: The General Register Office also holds the "General Index to Baptisms and Marriages purported to have been celebrated by the Rev, J.G.F. Schulze 1806-1837". This records 55 baptisms and c.14,0000 marriages celebrated in Dublin by this clergyman, without a licence. When some of the marriages were later challenged in court, they were held to be legal, and the volume was acquired by the Register Office. The bulk of the marriages, celebrated at the German Lutheran Church in Poolbeg St, Dublin, are for the years 1825 to 1837, and record only the names of the contracting parties.