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Deaths - Historical Searches

Online Form: Deaths - Histrorical Searches

The indexes in a Superintendent Registrar's office relate only to births, marriages and deaths which occurred within the Superintendent Registrar's district.

Searches of Death Indexes

Superintendent Registrars do not have the staff to undertake searches of an indefinite or protracted nature. Usually a search in the death index, covering a period not exceeding 5 years, will be made but only where accurate details have been given of the death registration. If a wider search is required it is necessary for the applicant or someone on his/her behalf to make ageneral search in the indexes. For further information see below and then make enquiries of the Superintendent Registrar.

General Searches at a Superintendent Registrar's Office

The indexes in a Superintendent Registrar's office relate only to births, marriages and deaths which occurred within the Superintendent Registrar's district.

A general search is a search in the indexes conducted in person by the applicant or someone on his/her behalf during any number of successive hours not exceeding six. By arrangement with the Superintendent Registrar a person making ageneral search may have access to the indexes to the registers of births, marriages and deaths but not to the registers themselves A fee of £18 is levied for this service. A certificate of any entry identified may be obtained on completion of an application form and on payment of the appropriate fee.

If a person making ageneral  is uncertain whether a reference found in the indexes relates to the entry for which he/she is searching, the Superintendent Registrar, on being given definite details by which the entry may be identified, may verify those particulars by