analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with government services so we can make them better A death was to be registered by someone who had been present at the death or during the final illness. If that wasn't possible, it could be registered by the owner of the building the person died in, or if the dead person was the owner, by some other occupier of the building. There were more complicated arrangements for eventualities such as unidentified bodies being found, and cases where there was a coroner's inquest. A death was supposed to be registered within eight days. [7] Date of death/age at death – Required information for deaths of children (16 years old or younger) and for applications without a GRO Index Reference. Home Office (8 April 2020). "Myrtle Lloyd appointed new Registrar General for England and Wales". gov.uk . Retrieved 8 April 2020. Any personal data you provide to GRO will be handled in compliance with current UK data protection legislation.

Some of the index reference numbers are available at local libraries, archives and other locations. Overseas records Names of mother/father/parent [footnote 1] – Required information for births registered in the last 50 years. The GRO supplies copies of birth, marriage, civil partnership certificates and death certificates, either online or from one of the local register offices that act on behalf of the GRO.

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Place/date of birth – Required information for births registered in the last 50 years and for applications without a GRO index reference. The names, images and logos identifying the General Register Office are proprietary marks of the General Register Office.

Overseas – Applications for marriages registered overseas – please state the country and the occupation of both parties at the time of marriage. If the occupation was with HM Forces, state branch, regiment and service number. Death certificatesClergy of the established Church of England are registrars for marriage. In each parish church two identical registers of marriages are kept and when they are complete, one is sent to the superintendent registrar. In the meantime, every three months it is required that a return certified by a clergy person detailing the marriages that had taken place, or else that no marriages had taken place, in the preceding three months, be submitted directly to the superintendent registrar. measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast Total value of application – The final price is affected by the dispatch service chosen and the number of certificates requested. Please note a full fee is payable for each certificate requested. A project, called DoVE (Digitisation of Vital Events), to digitise the GRO's records of birth, marriage and death was initiated in 2005. Implementation of the project was outsourced to Siemens IT Solutions and Services in a three-year contract which expired at the end of July 2008. The process of scanning, digitising and indexing suffered severe delays, with only (roughly) half the records delivered by the end of the contract period. By mutual agreement between the IPS and Siemens, the contract was not extended. Digitisation of birth records up to 1934 and death records up to 1957 had been completed when the contract ended.

Local Register Offices also hold records of events registered in their area. For births and deaths that were registered within the last 6 months, applications for certificates should be made to the Register Office in the district where the birth or death took place.

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These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. Overseas – Applications for deaths registered overseas – please state the country and last occupation. If the occupation was with HM Forces, state branch, regiment and service number. Section 3 – GRO index reference Mark Thomson, 2015–2020 [36] (also Director General of HM Passport Office, and on the executive management board of the Home Office) [37] All births, adoptions, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths registered in England or Wales have a GRO index reference number. Find index reference numbers online