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Offline Jebber

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Re: Deed Poll & Death
« Reply #9 on: Monday 23 May 22 16:30 BST (UK) »
Jebber

Just out of interest if someone changes their name at a solicitor's, would their name appear in the Gazette?



No, although they may have chosen to put an announcement in the local press, I Have one that did just that.

You can change your name without any legal declaration. Provided it is not to defraud etc. You simply notify the banks, the DWP and other people who need to know, that you are going to be known as  Joe Bloggs or whatever name you have chosen.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Deed Poll & Death
« Reply #10 on: Monday 23 May 22 18:22 BST (UK) »
Thanks, Jebber!
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Re: Deed Poll & Death
« Reply #11 on: Monday 23 May 22 18:32 BST (UK) »
Other than in wartime, a deed poll would only appear in the gazette if the person chose to have it "enrolled" through the High Court, which has always been optional and an extra cost, and therefore most people don't bother.

I've done a Deed Poll to change my name - I won't have it enrolled because my husband would have to fill in a form giving me permission to do so!
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