I tried to order a death cert on the GRO for a child who died in 1963 but as I dont know all the details it wont let me order it is there any way of getting it ??
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Originally posted by Val wish Id never started View PostThanks I know all except the actual date do know the year but on the GRO it says you must answer all the boxes with a red asterick by them and thats one of them .
Margaret
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I THINK this is because people who forge passports, claim benefits in lots of names, etc, go round graveyards looking for a deceased child, get their birth cert and establish a false identity.
It is cheaper for the GRO to insist on exact dates and relationships to the deceased, etc, than cross-referencing births and deaths, which would be the obvious solution to ME!
OC
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Originally posted by Val wish Id never started View PostI tried to order a death cert on the GRO for a child who died in 1963 but as I dont know all the details it wont let me order it is there any way of getting it ??
Write to them giving the details you know and the cert will be supplied.
It is illegal for them to refuse.
Cheers
GuyGuy passed away October 2022
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Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View PostI THINK this is because people who forge passports, claim benefits in lots of names, etc, go round graveyards looking for a deceased child, get their birth cert and establish a false identity.
OC
The GRO have no choice in the matter they have a legal obligation to supply any birth marriage or death certificate to anyone in the world for whatever purpose that person wishes to use it, the relevant law Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1953 states-
"30.-(1) The Registrar General shall cause indexes of all certified copies of entries in registers sent to him under this Act or under any enactment repealed by this Act to be made and kept in the General Register Office.
(2) Any person shall be entitled to search the said indexes at any time when the General Register Office is open for that purpose, and to have a certified copy of any entry in the said certified copies, on payment to the Registrar General or to such other person on his behalf of the following fees respectively, that is to say-..."
There is no choice in the matter.
If they refuse to supply the certificate they are committing an offence and are open to prosecution.
Cheers
GuyGuy passed away October 2022
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