Birth/marriage etc records lost at sea

[lazarus]

Hello, my first post here.

I am sure I read article somewhere about 25-30 years ago (I can't remember where) that sometime in the 19th century I think that all birth/death and marriage records from Nthn Ireland were going to be added to British records. Apparently the ship transporting them from Northern Ireland to I believe Newcastle UK sunk en-route and 1000s of records were lost forever.

I've been googling for days now and still not found any results. I know there was a loss of records during WW1 I think it was during a bombing raid.

Does anyone know where I can find info on the sunken ship please, or at least the name of the ship. Thanks

[Northern Lass]

Moving to Gen. discussion ..Miscellaneous section

[mumbles]

1926 Census Records for N. Ireland lost
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22848416

[lazarus]

Thanks very much for the link to the bbc article Mumbles, I must have been thinking of someting else getting sunk at sea. My memory is not wat it used to be:-)

[grangers14]

Taken from Ancestry About Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958

Civil registration of all births, marriages, and deaths in Ireland began in 1864 (except for non-Catholic marriages, for which registration started in 1845). Registration produced two sets of records: registers for births, marriages, and deaths and published indexes to these registers. The repositories for the records split in 1922, with the records for Northern Ireland being kept by the General Register Office (GRO) in Belfast, while records for the Republic of Ireland are housed at the GRO in Dublin. But the record set as a whole has survived and provides an invaluable source of vital information for Irish research.