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Deaths 1855 –
2009
Indexes Records
Coverage Information Coverage Information
of mothers, when and where
registered, names of witnesses
Index entries do not show the full date
of an event. These are present on
register entries.
Year of registration, surname, given
name(s), sex and age (see Note 2
below) of the deceased, the maiden
surname of the deceased, the
surname of the deceased’s mother
(see Note 1 below), district and
county in which the death was
registered and the GROS references.
Index entries do not show the full date
of an event. These are present on
register entries.
Note 1: The maiden name of the
deceased’s mother was not captured
on the deaths index until 1974.
Note 2: Age at death is not recorded
in some of the indexes for deaths
occurring between 1855 and 1865.
The missing ages are gradually being
added to the indexes by GROS.
1855 -
1961
Additional details in 1855
marriages:
Date & place of couple’s births,
number of previous marriages for
the bride & groom
Name of the deceased, when &
where died & cause of death, sex,
age, occupation & marital status,
name and occupation of father,
name and maiden surname of
mother, signature, qualification and
residence of the informant, when
and where registered
Additional details in 1855 deaths:
Place of birth, name of spouse, how
long the person has lived in district
where the death took place, names
& ages of children (in order of birth),
burial place
They have also added the certificates found the Register of Corrected Entries (RCE). RCE’s are corrections to
the record typically existing when someone needed a copy of their own record and found mistakes on it. If
there is an RCE attached to the record, a red “View RCE” button will appear. Click “View RCE” to view the
relevant RCE. This will cost you 2 credits. Also, the RCE is attached to the page, not the record, so if there is
more than one on a page, the first one you click on may not be the one you want so click on “View Page After”
(free of charge) to go to the next one.
The Family History Library has indexes for the years 1855 – 1955 and certificates for the years 1855-1875, 1881
& 1891.
Old Parish (Parochial) Registers (OPR)
When Civil Registration began in 1855, Scottish churches were required to turn in their existing “Old Parish
Registers” into the Registrar General. The OPR births & baptisms and marriages index is compiled from the
surviving registers of some 900 parishes of the established church (Church of Scotland), which recorded births
& baptisms until 1854. The original registers are held by the General Register Office for Scotland in Edinburgh.
As a result, digital images and microfilm copies of Church of Scotland records extend to 1854 only. Virtually
all of the church records available digitally through ScotlandsPeople are also available on microfilm
through your Family History Center.
The digital image of the OPR is a scan of the microfilm copy of the original parish church register page. There
will typically be other entries on the page and the writing may be easy or difficult to decipher.