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register office

British

noun

Often called: registry office. a government office where civil marriages are performed and births, marriages, and deaths are recorded

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Mrs Davies said she requested a Welsh certificate, but the General Register Office explained "that they will not or cannot, they said, re-register the death".

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Mrs Davies said the register office had offered to add the Welsh language to the certificate if she raised the issue as an "error", but that it would be "in a little box at the bottom of Aled's certificate, which would be so small you could hardly read it".

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In its last annual report, the Office of the Superintendent Registrar highlighted a 22% rise in Register Office weddings.

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Of the 316 civil marriage ceremonies held in Jersey in 2024, 135 took place at the Register Office - 24 more than the year before.

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The General Register Office said they had no trace of births registered between October 2020 and March 2021 to either of the parents’ names.

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