Order a birth, adoption, death, marriage or civil partnership certificate

A birth, adoption, death, marriage or civil partnership certificate can be ordered online from the General Register Office Northern Ireland (GRONI).

How to use this service

Follow the relevant link below, fill out the relevant online form and submit. You need a credit or debit card to use this service.

The General Register Office cannot issue a certificate if full details are not supplied when the certificate application is made. The application must include full name(s), place of event (district or street and town) and date or year of event.

Birth certificate

from 1864 to present - district or full address of birth must be supplied
Birth certificate

Adoption certificate

from 1931 to present
Adoption certificate

Marriage certificate

from 1845 for registered non-Roman Catholic marriages and all registered marriages from 1864
Marriage certificate

Civil partnership certificate

from 2005 to present
Civil partnership certificate

Death certificate

from 1864 to present - district or full address of death must be supplied
Death certificate

Please note that for the purposes of detection and prevention of crime, information relating to this application may be passed on to other government or law enforcement agencies.

If you do not have a credit or debit card, an application form can be printed and sent by post, enclosing a cheque or postal order.

Birth certificate application form (PDF 888KB)
Adoption certificate application form (PDF 856 KB)
Death Certificate Application (Northern Ireland) - GRO 41 (PDF 880 KB)
Marriage Certificate Application (Northern Ireland) - GRO 42 (PDF 3.04 MB)
Civil Partnership Certificate Application (Northern Ireland) - GRO 99 (PDF 240 KB)
or you can call: 0300 200 7890 (028 9151 3101 from outside Northern Ireland)

Fees

Full certified copy of a birth/adoption/marriage/civil partnership/death certificate £14.00

Where two or more full certified copies of the same entry are applied for at the same time, the first copy will be charged at £14.00 and any additional copies at £8.00 each.

Short birth/adoption certificate £14.00

A short certificate shows only the surname, name, sex, date of birth and (in most cases) the district of birth. A short certificate is generally only accepted as proof of age.

Please note that to obtain either a UK or Irish Passport, a full birth/adoption certificate is required.

Priority Certificate £32.00

On payment of a priority fee, applications received before 2.30 pm will be dispatched the same working day. Applications received after 2.30 pm, at weekends or during public holidays will be dispatched on the next working day.

Postage charges

The following amounts will be added to your payment to cover postage costs:

Country	one certificate	two certificates	three certificates	four or more certificates
UK	0	0	0	0
Europe	£0.66	£0.98	£0.98	£1.27
Rest of the world	£1.08	£1.63	£1.63	£2.05

Processing times

GRONI aims to process and dispatch online applications within five working days of the application being received.

Priority Applications will be issued by first class mail.

Information required to order a certificate

Birth certificates

full name of person whose birth certificate is required
date and place of birth (district or street and town)
names of parents (including mother's maiden name
mother's address at time of birth

Adoption certificates

full name of person whose birth certificate is required
date and place of birth
names of adoptive parents
name of Court which made the order and date of order

Marriage certificates

full names of the married couple and bride's maiden name
date and place of marriage

Civil partnership certificates

full names of both partners and any other surnames used before this partnership
date and place of civil partnership

Death certificates

full name of deceased
date and place of death (district or street and town)
the usual address of the deceased if different from place of death

Please note that deaths before 1922 cannot be traced if the district where the death was registered is not known.

For deaths within the last three years the applicant must indicate whether the coroner was notified.

GRO email addresses are as follows:

For certificate, public search room or genalogical enquiries email:
mail to: gro_nisra@dfpni.gov.uk
For adoption, marriage, civil partnership, death and name change enquiries
mail to: groreg_nisra@dfpni.gov.uk