Registrar General
Registration House
Huggins Building
South Quay
Port-of-Spain
Trinidad & Tobago
Tel.: (868) 623-7163
Fax: (868) 625-9803
Registrar General: Mr. Francis
Sandy - Ext.: 3113
Secretary to Registrar General: Ext.: 3114
Open: 8.30am - 3.15pm
Government Website: http://www.gov.tt/
The Registrar General's Department
is the divided into three Registries, the Civil Registry,
the Companies Registry and the Land Registry.
Up to recent years, these three Registries held a large collection
of legal records of all kinds, some dating to the late 18th
century. Many were in very poor condition and poorly organised.
An unknown number of these old records, including newspapers,
formerly stored - but unorganised - in the Vaults of Red House
have, over the years, been lost. It is not known whether the
recent move into Registration House has resulted in further
losses.
The Civil Registry holds
the civil records of births, marriages, deaths from 1848. Birth
Records only go back to approximately 1838-1840, as previous
records burnt in large fire in Port of Spain. The Registrar
General will search and provide a certificate for one for TT$25.00
(TT$12.50 for the search and TT$12.50 for the certificate).
The Registrar General's Department also has offices in the following
areas:
Registrar General's Department
Sub-Office Birjah Building
71 - 79 Independence Avenue
San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago
Tel.: (868) 657-9597
Registrar General's Department
Sub-Office
32E Pro Queen Street
Arima, Trinidad & Tobago
Tel.: (868) 667-1700
Registrar General's Department
Sub-Office
Administration Building
Jerningham Street
Scarborough, Tobago.
The Land Registry of
the Registrar General's Department is the government department
responsible for the registration of all documents relating to
an interest in land. This may involve the registration of deeds,
instruments under the Real Property Ordinance, transfers of
$2.00 TT per page $1.00 TT per plan $5.00 TT for certificate
of correctness.
The Companies Registry
of the Registrar General's Department is the government department
responsible for the registration of all incorporated companies
and for all business name approvals.
England
Office for National Statistics
Family Records Center
1 Myddelton Street
London
EC1R 1UW
Telephone: +44 (151) 471-4800
E-mail: certificate.services@ons.gov.uk
Web Site: http://www.ons.gov.uk/regist.htm
Houses the search facilities
of the General Register Office's Public Search Room and the
Census Reading Rooms of the Public Record Office. The Public
Search Room holds indexes to the records of all births, deaths
and marriages registered in England and Wales since July 1837;
adoptions since 1927; and some births, deaths and marriages
of British citizens overseas since 1761 including those of the
armed forces. Records for Scotland and Northern Ireland can
also be accessed here.
Northern
Ireland
General Register Office
(Northern Ireland)
Oxford House
49 - 55 Chichester Street
Belfast BT1 4HL
Telephone: 028 9025 2021/2/3/4/5
International: +44 28 9025 2021/2/3/4/5
E-mail: gro.nisra@dfpni.gov.uk
Web Site: http://www.nisra.gov.uk/gro/
Scotland
General Register Office
for Scotland
New Register House
Scotland
EH1 3YT
Telephone: 0131 314 4433
E-mail: records@gro-scotland.gov.uk
Web Site: http://wood.ccta.gov.uk/grosweb/grosweb.nsf
Online Index: Scots
Origins
