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From: "Bob Cunning" <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] Ordering Certificates from Register Offices
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:34:09 +1100
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I'll stick with GRO, much simpler.

Cheers, Bob in Melbourne


----- Original Message -----
From: "Firebird" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Ess] Ordering Certificates from Register Offices


> Bob Cunning wrote:
>
>> The only time I tried to buy a Cert. from a local Register, I asked if
>> they
>> accepted plastic in payment. I received a polite letter telling me, in
>> essence, that they were too busy to search for old certs. I always use
>> GRO
>> now
>
> Few register offices do take plastic or online applications. There
> are two offices that won't look up historical certs, one is Islington
> and the other (IIRC) is Hackney.
>
> However, both can be forced to do so if you know the right route to
> take which is to contact the GRO in Southport, explain the situation,
> and ask that the "appropriate person" contact the register office.
> You then get a contact from the register office who will then look up
> the information. It's long winded but if that's what it takes to make
> them do the job they are legally obliged to do, then I'll do it.

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