Can anyone tell me please where to purchase a copy death certificate in Northumberland? Thanks Patrick

If the death happened after Civil Registration began, in July 1837, then you have to look up the death in the GRO index, General Register Office Index. You will find this index in major libraries in the UK and also on line at the Ancestry site www.acestry.co.uk You do not need to be a subscriber or to pay to view this particular index at the ancestry site, it is the only one that is free of charge on the site. Look for the death there and note the Registration District, the volume and Page number and of course the full name as given in the entry. You can then order the copy certificate from the GRO at Southport via their website. http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ paying online for the copy. Or you could contac the District registrars office that currently holds the registers for the district that the death took lace in. Look at the Genuki pages for England and then go to the County pages for either Durham or Northumberland, the county where the death took place. Once there look under the heading Civil Registraion and you should find links to the addresses of the various district registrars offices in that county. Many district Registrars offices now have an e.mail address and if you contact them to ask you may find that they will take payment by credit by either letter or telephone call but the rarely have on line payment facilities. www.genuki.org.uk If you want to check details of your person against the entry to ensure that you have the right person in the death entry you have found then you can ask the district office to check what information you have against the entry and if it agrees you will be expected to buy the copy, if it doesn't agree with the entry you will not have to buy a copy, but don't expect the registrars to give out any information, they are not allowed to. The GRO at Southport will check an entry against information you can supply for checking but they make a charge for this service approximately half the cost of a cert. copy and you will also be charged for a copy of the matching entry, if the entry does not agree with your extra information you will only be charged the checking fee and nothing more. If the death occurred prior to July 1837 then you would have to search parish registers to find the burial of the person concerned. Start with the parish church for where the person lived and work out from there. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. > Can anyone tell me please where to purchase a copy death certificate in > Northumberland?