Buy a copy certificate

Certificates may be ordered from St Helens Borough Council:

If you were born in Whiston Hospital, your birth is registered at the Knowsley Register Office. 

If a death occurred in Whiston Hospital, the death is registered at the Knowsley Register Office. 

You will need to apply to Knowsley Register Office for a copy certificate. 

Address:

Knowsley Register Office 
High Street 
Prescot 
Merseyside 
L34 3LD 

Telephone: 0151 443 2900

To apply for copy birth, marriage or death certificates where the event (birth, marriage or death) took place in:

• Northern Ireland - you will need to apply to The General Register Office for Northern Ireland
• Scotland - you will need to apply to National Records for Scotland

If you are unsure where an event (birth, marriage or death) took place in England or Wales, you can apply directly to the General Register Office.

The General Register Office holds copies of all births, marriages and deaths that have taken place in England and Wales.

You can:

Apply online:  Request a copy certificate from the General Register Office

Apply by telephone: 0300 123 1837

Apply by post using an application form to: 

The General Register Office 
PO Box 2
Southport 
Merseyside 
PR8 2JD

For postal applications, download the form for the copy certificates you require.

Please select from:

Copy of adoption certificate (PDF) [35KB]

Copy of birth certificate (PDF) [44KB]

Copy of civil partnership certificate (PDF) [16KB]

Copy of death certificate (PDF) [17KB]

Copy of marriage certificate (PDF) [31KB]

Contact the General Register Office for help ordering a certificate or questions about an order.

General Register Office

certificate.services@gro.gov.uk (for general enquiries)
Online form (for enquiries after you've applied for a certificate)
Telephone: 0300 123 1837
Textphone: 18001 0300 123 1837
Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm
Saturday, 9am to 4pm
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General Register Office
PO Box 2
Southport
PR8 2JD

Personal information which you are required by law to provide for a registration will be kept by the relevant local registration officer.

The local registration officer to whom you supply information will also send a copy of this information to the General Register Office (GRO) for England and Wales so that a central record of all registrations can be maintained.

A copy of any register entry will be provided to any applicant, provided that they supply enough information to identify the entry concerned and pay the appropriate fee.

The copy may only be issued in the form of a paper certified copy (a "certificate").

An application for a certificate may be made to either the Local Register Office or to the GRO. The GRO makes indexes, for the central record of registrations, publicly available in order to help members of the public identify the registration they might need.

The Register Office also makes a local index available for this purpose.

The Local Register Office may also choose to make the information contained within local indexes available on line. This will be done in order to help members of the public identify the registration they might need.

Any information placed on line must be done in manner which is compliant with the Data Protection and Human Rights Act. Additionally, confidential information for statistical purposes which you are required by law to give to the local registration officer, and other information provided voluntarily, will be passed to the UK Statistics Authority for the preparation and supply of statistics.

As well as providing certificates, local registration officers and the GRO may make registration information available to other organisations, for the following purposes:

1. Statistical or research purposes
2. Administrative purposes by official bodies e.g. ensuring their records are up-to-date
3. Fraud prevention or detection, immigration and passport purposes

For further information on data held by the Registrar General, visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ips-privacy-policy

Staff at this local registration office will be able to provide further information on data held by the registration service.