Some websites offer to order "official" BMD (birth, marriage and death) certificates on your behalf — often at considerably inflated prices. All they are doing is ordering them on your behalf while charging through the nose. Ordering a certificate in England & Wales will cost you no more than £11.00 from the GRO directly.
Below are links to order birth, death or marriage certificates from the official providers, without paying any surcharges.
- General Register Office for England and Wales — current price £11.00
- General Register Office for Scotland
- General Register Office for Ireland — current price €20.00 plus postage
- General Register Office Northern Ireland — current price £15.00
- Isle of Man General Registry — current price £11.00. A search fee will apply if no date details are known.
Note on prices. Certificate prices are set by the issuing authority and change periodically. The prices shown above were correct at the time of writing — check the official websites for the current fee before ordering.