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Registration of births, marriage and deaths in England started in 1837. Copies of certificates can be obtained from the GRO. It was not compulsory to register a birth, marriage or death with the British authorities whilst you were abroad, but if the event was registered with the authorities then a certificate can be obtained from here.
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*RG 43 General Register Office: Indexes to Miscellaneous Foreign Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths 1627-1960 Indexes to the non-statutory registers and returns in RG 32 to RG 34, and to certain Army and Statutory registers retained by the Registrar-General. Also appears to contain indexes to RG 35 [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/browser.asp?CATLN=3&CATID=12212&GPE=False&DOWN=FALSE&MARKER=9000&MARKERSCN= Contents]
This [http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060213205629/http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc/pdfs/british_in_india.pdf Fact Sheet] from the now closed Family Records Centre advises that RG 33 contains some entries, mostly from the twentieth century, from the Princely States Bikaner, Eastern Rajputana, Gwalior, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Madras States, Mysore, Punjab States and Trivandrum, in the series RG 33/90-113 which are indexed in RG 43/15. Some nineteenth and early twentieth century deaths in French territories in India are in RG 35/16 and RG 35/20-44
Indexes to Overseas BMD available on [http://www.familyrelatives.com/search/search_browseoverseas.php Family Relatives] (free search) and [http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp FindMyPast] (pay to search) appear to be the indexes from RG 43, together with other indexes in respect of military overseas BMD. If you find a reference in the indexes to a record in one of the above returns, the following options are available
