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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: BushInn1746 on Thursday 15 October 20 17:36 BST (UK)
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Hello All
I have seen a recent October 2020 England Registration and enquired how the event could be Registered at another Registration District Office to the Registration District where the Event actually occurred.
Owing to a backlog in registering Deaths and other Events in some local Registration District Offices, the Event was registered at another District Office and both the Registration District and Sub-District were shown by County on the English Certificate.
So some Certificates will be Registered as before, whereas some will show the County for both Registration District and Sub-district.
Obviously the Certificate will still have address details of where the event took place and all the other usual information.
Mark
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Many Registration Districts in the modern era cover a whole county.
An example from the fount of all knowledge
https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/staffordshire.html
(and in this case Staffs means the area of the County Council so does not include Stoke-on-Trent)
STAFFORDSHIRE REGISTRATION DISTRICT
Registration County : Staffordshire.
Created : 1.10.2008 (from Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle under Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, and Staffordshire Moorlands registration districts).
Sub-districts : Staffordshire
Registers currently held at : Staffordshire (Burton), Staffordshire (Cannock), Staffordshire (Lichfield), Staffordshire (Newcastle) and Staffordshire (Stafford).
So even though they have 5 offices, they are only one formal Registration District and even Sub-District. So they can move staff and workload in the way you suggest. And also how I was able to register my father's death at the nearest office even though he died in hospital at the end other end of the relevant county.
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2019 my parents died (they were both well over 90).
Both died in the same room but six weeks apart. I registered the first in Suffolk where they lived but got refused on the second and had to go to Cambridge!
So they have different registration districts!
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I came across this checking a death in 2008 on the GRO site. There were various numbers which seemed to relate to districts - is there any way of finding out what they mean? I really wanted to find out where the death took place, other than the county.
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We had a baby recently and when we asked about registering him we were told to book a meeting online to do it. We got a date for the end of December. I have a friend whose child was born in Sept and he will be registering the baby in January due to his area's backlog of registrations.