Nonconformist register

A Nonconformist register is a of a nonconformist church or chapel.

Nonconformist churches are churches which do not conform to the doctrines of the established. Examples include the, , churches and the.

Following Hardwicke's Marriage Act of, all marriages (except for Quakers and Jews) had to take place in a Church of England parish church. But baptisms and burials took place in their own churches and chapels, and were recorded in their own registers.

Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials of nonconformist churches were collected by the British government in 1837 and may be viewed at the in series RG 4.