Obtaining a birth or death certificate
You can order a copy of a birth or death certificate from the General Register Office in the country where the event took place. You can order by post, by telephone or online. Certificates cost £9.25 (2014 prices).
Obtaining a stillbirth certificate
The UK General Register Office’s policy states: “Due to the sensitive nature of stillbirth registrations, the procedure for ordering a certificate of the entry differs from other types of [birth and death] certificates. We will only send out the application form after we have been contacted by phone or in writing by the mother or father (if he is named on the certificate). In cases where the parents are deceased, a brother or sister can apply if they can provide their parents’ dates of death.”
General Register Office (England and Wales)
www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
General Register Office
PO Box 2, Southport PR8 2JD
Tel: 0300 123 1837
Email: certificate.services@gro.gsi.gov.uk, include “GQ” in the email Subject
The National Records of Scotland
www.gov.uk/national-records-of-scotland For the online contact form
New Register House
3 West Register Street, Edinburgh EH1 3YT
Tel: 0131 314 4411
General Register Office for Northern Ireland
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/district-registrars-northern-ireland
Oxford House
49 – 55 Chichester Street, Belfast BT1 4HL
Tel: 0300 200 7890 (from other UK countries: 028 9151 3101)
Email: gro.nisra@dfpni.gov.uk