Information for Parties desiring to register Births, deaths and Marriages

The South Australian News 15 July 1843

Vital Statistics of South Australia

The following tables exhibit the births and deaths in South Australia from the year

1837 to the close of the year 1842

Table of Births which have taken place in the province

Register of Burials in Adelaide

Information for Parties desiring to register Births, deaths and Marriages

The South Australian Government Gazette

Published October 4, 1855

General Registry Office, Adelaide, October 3, 1855

Act No 13. of 5^th Victoria requires that births, deaths and marriages be registered in the Districts in which these events occur.

The occupiers of houses in which deaths occur, the Coroner or District Constable in the case of bodies found, are required to

register within ten days from the death, or finding of the body, under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

Parents, or occupiers of houses in which births take place, are required to register the same within forty two days, under a

penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

Parents, guardians, or persons present at births, may register the same after forty two days, by paying a fee of ten shillings

and sixpence, and making declaration of particulars before the Deputy Registrar of the District.

Registration of births is prohibited after the expiration of six months, unless in the case of births on the seas.

Any Officer registering, or any person who shall cause to be registered, any birth contrary to the instructions of the said Act,

is subject to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

Robt. R Torrens, Registrar-General.

Registration Districts and Deputy Registrar

District of the Murray
Counties of Eyre and Stanley and the whole of the country to the northward and north westward thereof, extending to Lake Torrens	T W Powell
District of Flinders Boundaries of the County	H.C Hawson
District of Encounter Bay District Council boundaries	D.M. Mackie
District of Clare District Council boundaries	W.M Lennon
Districts of Grey and Robe Boundaries of the Counties	T.Y. Cotter
District of Munno Para West District Council boundaries	J. O’Sullivan
District of Munno Para East District Council boundaries	M.C.Wilson
District of Yatala District Council boundaries	J Chapple
District of Nairne District Council boundaries	J Ryder
District of Willunga District Council boundaries	W Shaw
District of Mount Barker District Council boundaries	J.B Shepherdson
District of Highercombe District Council boundaries	T Crews
District of Barossa West District Council boundaries	G Nott
District of Onkaparinga	D Baruh

All places within the Province not included in the Boundaries of the above proclaimed

Registrars’ Districts are regarded as being in the District of Adelaide

General Registry Office, Adelaide,

September 29, 1855

Reverend William Hill has been entered as a person authorised to grant Licenses for Marriages,

for the Districts of Gawler and Light

Reverend James Way has been entered as a person authorised to grant Licenses for Marriages,

for the Province of South Australia