Registration Service
The Stornoway Office
This Registration Office serves a very large area of the Western Isles covering Ness, the West Side, Stornoway, Broadbay and Southern parts of Lewis. The Stornoway Office has recently been provided with a new facility for researching family history via an electronic link with Edinburgh. This new technology can now be used to meet the growing demand for searches.
Hours of Business
Monday to Friday 9.00am to 12.30pm and 2.00pm to 4.30pm
Services provided include
- Registering Births Deaths and Marriages
- Issuing extracts from the Registers
- Conducting civil marriages
- Conducting Searches for genealogy purposes and family trees
- Registering Cemetery lairs
The Stornoway Office has the following information available:
- All Scottish indexes for Births Deaths and Marriages from 1855 onwards
- All Scottish parish register indexes from 1553 - 1854
- Divorce indexes from 1984
- Census records 1841 - 1891
- Local parish registers
