21. Certificates contain the seal of the General Register Office and show an abridged version of the Royal Coat of Arms. 22. In 1991 the General Register Office for all births, deaths and marriages, officially took up residence at the Smedley Hydro site. 23. The machine was used by William Farr at the General Register Office to compute life tables, which were published in 1864. 24. In 1836 he was appointed as the first Registrar General for England and Wales, to head the new General Register Office. 25. Two of his registers of marriage survive, and are held by the General Register Office of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Dublin. 26. The IBM System / 360, announced in 1964, was a popular computer system with 24-bit addressing and 32-bit general registers and arithmetic. 27. :According to our article General Register Office and other sources, it became compulsory to register births in 1875 in England and Wales. 28. In this list the names as used in the reports of the General Register Office for Scotland for the 2002 census are used. 29. Stillbirth certificates can only be ordered by the mother or father of the deceased contacting the General Register Office by phone or letter. 30. His death certificate, issued by the General Register Office of the United Kingdom, lists the cause of death as a malignant brain tumor.
