Hello mothership55-ga
Information on the web site of the General Register Office for England
and Wales states that applications for certificates relating to deaths
registered within the last 12 months should be made to the local
Register Office where the death was registered.
Ennismore Avenue, London W4 is in Chiswick, which comes under Hounslow
Council (confirmed by telephone call to Hounslow Council offices).
Therefore, the registration will have been at:
The Register Office
"Clovelly"
88 Lampton Road
Hounslow
TW3 4DW
Tel: General Enquiries/Certificate Production +44 (0)20 8583 2090
General Office Opening Hours :
Monday-Friday
9.30-12.30
14.00-16.00
You will need to contact the office to obtain an application form.
Currently, the cost of obtaining a copy of a death certificate from a
local register office appears to be £6.50 (The Hounslow web site does
not provide this information, but I checked a couple of other local
register offices that have details on their web sites, eg
http://www.kirkleesmc.gov.uk/answers/register-office/certificates.shtml#death
and http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/BirthsDeathsAndMarriages/deaths/deaths_certificate_application.pdf
). Deaths have to be registered within 5 days, so up to about May 10
of this year, you will need to contact the Hounslow Office.
After this time, you can also get a copy of the certificate by
telephone, fax or postal enquiry from the General Register Office
(GRO) or by going to the Family Records Centre.
An application form for obtaining a death certificate from the GRO is
available at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/registration/certe_w/downloads/deaths.pdf
General Register Office
PO Box 2
Southport
Merseyside PR8 2JD
To order by telephone: +44 (0)870 243 77 88. (payment by Visa,
Mastercard, Solo, Delta or Switch)
by fax: +44 (0)1704 550013 (include number of credit/debit card)
You can telephone from 8am to 8pm Monday-Friday, and 9am to 4pm
Saturday.
The cost is £11 (£11.50 from April 1, 2003).
Postal applications can be paid by credit/debit card, or by a cheque
or postal order made out to ONS. If applying from abroad, payment
should be made by credit card or by an International Money Order made
out to ONS expressed in pounds Sterling with a UK clearing bank.
If you want the certificate posted to you within 24 hours, the fee
increases to £27 (£27.50 from April 1, 2003). You need to ask for the
priority service when telephoning or faxing, or write PRIORITY on the
envelope if using the postal service.
You can obtain a discount of £3 on these prices if you can provide a
GRO index reference, but to get this you need to visit the Family
Records Centre in London (see below), where you can apply for
certificates in person anyway.
Email enquiries to GRO: certificate.services@ons.gov.uk (include the
letters GQ in the subject field to avoid receiving an auto-text
response.)
After 12 months, you can also apply in person to the Family Records
Centre, 1 Myddelton Street, London EC1R 1UW. Here, you will have to
search the hard copy indexes yourself, find the entry you want, make a
note of the GRO index reference, fill in a form and pay by cash, card
or cheque with guarantee card. You will then be able to collect the
certificate after 4 days, or have it posted to you by first class
mail. The fee is £6.50 (£7 from April 1). To have the certificate
ready for collection the next day (same day collection is not
possible), the fee is £22.50 (£23 from April 1). It is assumed you
will collect it yourself, but it can be sent by Special Delivery for
an extra (unstated) fee. If you make a mistake in the application (GRO
index reference quoted is incorrect or the details and checking points
quoted do not correspond to the entry), the certificate will not be
issued and you will be charged an administration fee of £3.
Deaths are listd in black books arranged on the shelves by year, then
within years in quarters and within each quarter by surname. The June
quarter covers deaths registered in April, May and June of that year.
FRC opening hours are:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm
Tuesday 10.00am to 7.00pm
Thursday 9.00am to 7.00pm*
Saturday 9.30am to 5.00pm
There is a restricted service between 9-10am on Thursdays to allow for
staff training. During that hour customers are able to search the
indexes, but cannot order any certificates.
The Centre is open on the Saturdays of Bank Holiday weekends, escept
during Easter and Christmas.
A map of the locations, with travel details is available at
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/registration/FRC/family_records_location.asp
Sources:
Hounslow Council: http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/a-z/alpha_r/register.html
General Register Office:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/nsbase/registration/certificates.asp and
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/registration/CertE_W/other_certificate_obtain.asp
(general info on certificates)
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/nsbase/registration/CertE_W/Revisedfees.asp
(revised fees)
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/registration/FRC/family_records_background.asp
(Family Records Centre)
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/registration/FRC/frc_certificate_obtain.asp
(FRC procedures)
Search strategy: First search was on "death certificate" England
"register office", which gave me the general information from the GRO
and FRC. I then searched on "Ennismore Avenue" London, to find which
local authority it came under, and then searched for "Hounslow
Council" |
