| AdminHistory | John Southerden Burn (1798-1870); Secretary to the Commission for inquiries into non-parochial registers, 1836-1841. This Commission was set up by William IV to inquire into and collect registers of births, baptisms, deaths, burials and marriages other than parochial registers. As a result of the Commission's activities nearly 7000 such registers were collected and are now preserved at the National Archives at Kew. The remaining records of most of the refugee congregations in Great Britain, French or otherwise, came into Mr Burn's custody. |