Late Registrations
A significant proportion of all births, marriages and deaths were simply not registered. When the individuals concerned, or their relatives, later needed a certificate for official purposes, it became necessary to register the event. The index references for these late registrations are included in the volume for the year in which the event took place. For example, the index reference for someone born in 1880, but whose birth was not registered until 1900, is to be found in the index for 1880. In the case of births and deaths, these references are indexed separately from the main body of the index at the back of the volume. For marriages, late registrations are written in by hand at the relevant point in the main body of the index. Although the chances of finding a missing registration among these is quite slim, it is still necessary to include them in any thorough search of the indexes.

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 that 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 GRO.

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 1806-37'. This records 55 baptisms and approximately 14,000 marriages celebrated in Dublin by this clergyman who did not hold 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 Street, Dublin, are for the years 1825 to 1837 and record only the names of the individuals marrying.

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