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The General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO) is the section of the United Kingdom HM Passport Office responsible for the civil registration of births (including stillbirths), adoptions, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths in England and Wales and for those same events outside the UK if they involve a UK citizen and qualify to be registered in various miscellaneous registers.
The Family Records Centre (FRC) provided access to family history research sources mainly for England and Wales. It was administered jointly by the General Register Office (GRO) and The National Archives. It opened in March 1997 and was fully operational by the following month.
When someone dies in England and Wales, a doctor involved in their care completes a "medical certificate of cause of death" (MCCD). This is then forwarded to the register office to register the person's death. [5] The General Register Office, which is a section of HM Passport Office, is responsible for civil registration services in England and ...
In England and Wales, birth registration with the state began on 1 July 1837; however, only became compulsory in 1875. In 1970, with the creation of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys by merging the GRO and the Government Social Survey Department, the GRO became just one division of the new office, headed by a Deputy Registrar General.
Her death certificate, which was made public on 29 September, recorded her cause of death as old age. [1] According to her former prime minister Boris Johnson [27] and the biographer Gyles Brandreth, she was suffering from a form of bone marrow cancer, which Brandreth wrote was multiple myeloma. [28] Her death was publicly announced at 18:30.
Since Queen Elizabeth died at Balmoral Castle, the National Records of Scotland released an extract from her death certificate. The cause of death is listed as "old age" and her daughter, Princess ...
Alice Molland, who was the last woman in England to be condemned to death for witchcraft in 1685, may have survived and lived a long life, according to new research by a history professor, who ...
In Mexico, vital records (birth, death and marriage certificates) are registered in the Registro Civil, as called in Spanish. Each state has its own registration form. Until the 1960s, birth certificates were written by hand, in a styled, cursive calligraphy (almost unreadable for the new generations) and typically issued on security paper ...