Death Certificate

[ironmonger]

I have just received a form for a death certificate from the Identity and Passport Service. This is new to me.To save me time and trouble of them returning it, I wonder if any one knows if I have to answer all the questions as there are some answers I do not know. i.e. Occupation & unsure about parents. Thank you.

[bookbinder]

It might save time if you could get on to the Identity and Passport Service. You could explain your problems on the phone, and they could give you all the answers you need. Best of luck.

[ironmonger]

Thanks bookbinder. I did try that but they messed me about with press 1 or 2 or 3 etc then kept me hanging on so I thought I would try this way.

[jackthehat]

May I ask why you are using the I&PS rather than the local Register Office ?
You may get far more help going to a 'smaller' department.

[ironmonger]

Thanks jackthehat. I did apply to Ealing Registry Office London but they were unable to help.
They told me to get in touch with Southport Registry office and this is where the form came from.

[dothawkes31]

No it's not Southport Registry Office, it;s the National Office for Registrations which happens to be at Smedley Hydro Southport. ( I walked passed the regsiter office in Southport today and it';s a tiny office on the side of the town hall) anyway, why not order it online, pay 9.25, BUT add as much corroborating info that you know in the box provided:
https://www.gro.gov.u...ertificates/Login.asp

or have you already done that and they have sent you the form for further info?

[ironmonger]

Hi dothawekes31. Yes they have sent me a form but the address I have to return ti to is
General Register Office
PO Box 2
Southport
Merseysied
PR8 2JD

[dothawkes31]

I don't understand why they sent you the form, did you not have the reference from the GRO index ? That should be all they need with an online order. How did you first contact them and what info did you give them?

[ironmonger]

The person I am looking for died in Brentford which is now under Ealing.
They could not find him so they told me to send it to Southport, which I did.
I gave them all the details I had, DOB DOD Vol No Page No from Ancestry.
This they returned together with the form. The letter they sent me reads as follows. GRO have recently introduced application forms which have been designed and
developed to be electronically scanned direct into our new application
database rather than having to be individually input. Therefore postal
applications will only be accepted on the new style forms which must be
completed in full and returned by post to the GRO office with payment
of £9.25.
As it states complete form in full there is my problem

[dothawkes31]

so all you need to do is go to the link I've given you and pay for it online with your card and it will not need anything else but the vol and page number, and this is why, all registrations were copied and sent to the central register qarterly by the local register office which will mean anything lost at a register office, say in the blitz, has a surviving copy. so order it online and they will find the copy registration.

[ironmonger]

Thanks dothawkes31 I will try what you say.