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Hello,

My great-great-great-grandfather was a Scottish carpenter (journeyman), but his first child in 1846 was born in Hungary! After a lot of Googling I discovered that Scottish workmen were taken over to Hungary to build The Chain Bridge - the first permanant structure to span the Danube - by the Scottish engineer Adam Clark. It seems a reasonable explanation of what my ancestor was doing there.

However, would there have been a method to register such a birth in the Austro-Hungarian Empire for British Citizens and are those records available? He was back in the UK in 1848, so I have certificates for all his other children.

I've seen some sites on-line (some link from this very forum) for oversees Consulate and Embassy registrations, but they seem to start later than 1846. Anyone know if the earlier ones exist?

Thanks in advance.