Can You Actually Look Up A Recent

[royfromaus]

death certificated or are all these sites going to lead me up a blind alley?

[davebro]

https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate

[pixie374]

If you go to Gov.uk, it will show you how to get a death certificate.

[Bobbisox1]

In our local paper you can just put the name of the deceased in the search box and it’ll come up, do you know the location?if so try the local paper

[Bobbisox1]

Oops, sorry Roy, I didn’t notice certificate ( good luck)

[bednobs]

i presume from the q roy actually wants to look at it online, rather than order one.

[pixie374]

It's £11. I think you can see them free, if you are on Ancestry.uk.

[royfromaus]

Exactly what I was hoping for, bednobs but it looks like I will have to show some patience.

[Buenchico]

All death certificates are in the public domain but no online service has any better access to them than the general public do. So, if you use an online service to obtain one, you'll end up paying extra for something that you could have done yourself directly anyway.

There's no way of doing it for free though. The charge for issuing a copy of a death certificate is £11, plus £3 for searching for it. (You can avoid the £3 search fee if you've got the 'GRO index reference number' but the only free online search facility to get that number currently doesn't go past 1992):
https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate
(That link applies to deaths registered in England and Wales. Click the links from that page to see how things work in Scotland or Northern Ireland).

[Buenchico]

>>> I think you can see them free, if you are on Ancestry.uk

No you can't. Individual birth, marriage and death certificates aren't available in digital format, Ancestry UK only provides a search facility to find GRO index reference numbers, which are based upon the information that's available for free (but doesn't go past 1992 anyway) on FreeBMD:
https://www.freebmd.org.uk/
You still need to order and pay for certificates via my link above.

[pixie374]

Ok, thanks x

[royfromaus]

The .gov site tells me

Applications for events registered within the last 6 months cannot be made via this site.

He's been dead 3 months and finding anything out is proving difficult.

[LadyCG]

This is your brother?

[Buenchico]

If you know the locality where the death was registered, try a phone call to the relevant Register Office, to see if they can advise you on the way forward:
https://www.gov.uk/register-offices
(Note: If the person died in hospital, in a different local authority area to where they lived, it will be the Register Office serving the hospital's locality, not the home locality of the deceased, that you'll need to contact).

[royfromaus]

Yes, LadyCJ

[LadyCG]

Are there no family members who can shed any light?

[royfromaus]

No.
We only found out because the council sent a letter to my sister about his pension because she was down as the next of kin. They then sent a letter apologising for the first letter because they then found out he married a few days before his death.
So I assume the gold-digger wants the pension too.

[bednobs]

if its state pension roy, nobody will get it (except dwp)

[LadyCG]

Oh right. It sounds like he was ill and had a poor prognosis then. Which hospital would have been his local?

[Buenchico]

^^^ If a council is sending out letters about pension, Bednobs, I assume that it must be local government pensions that are involved, as councils aren't concerned with any other types of pensions.

[bednobs]

ok gotcha