Obtain a Replacement Buckinghamshire Marriage Certificate Copy
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Purchase a copy Buckinghamshire Marriage Certificate Replacement, suitable for both legal and family history uses.
All Buckinghamshire marriage certificates supplied are certified copies or extract copies for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.The Buckinghamshire marriage certificate will normally include full names of both parties, occupation, usual residence, age and name of father for both parties, place of marriage (Buckinghamshire) and registration district (England).
Purchase a Buckinghamshire Marriage Certificate Replacement
Purchase a Replacement Marriage Certificate, suitable for both legal and family history uses. Sometimes also known as Wedding Certificate, these documents are essential to prove a change of name when married. If you have lost your marriage certificate, or need one for family history purposes, this replacement copy will help you.
Copy Marriage Certificates are often essential to prove identity when applying for:
Passports
Bank accounts
Pensions
Social Security
Employer ID
Driving licence
Visas and Immigration
Divorce
Adoption
What you will get?
You will receive a Buckinghamshire Marriage Certificate. These are officially known as Certified or Extract Copies, as they are issued based on the original that was stored when the marriage originally took place. This does not mean you will receive a photocopy! You will get a newly printed certificate, as good as the original. The only difference is that the date of issue will be different.
What a Buckinghamshire marriage certificate contains?
A replacement marriage certificate, probably offers the best boost to genealogy research of any document. Not only does it tell you the exact
date of the marriage and the full names of the couple, it also includes their ages (however, it might just say "full," meaning of age; around 75% of marriages
certificates just list "full" until the early 1850s. If it says "minor" or "under age" that means between the ages of 12 and 20 for a girl and 14-20 for a boy,
at least until 1929, when the lower age limit for marriage became 16, giving you a fair amount of exact information for your family tree.
It's possible that the names weren't spelt correctly. When illiteracy was more common neither the bride nor groom might have been able to check the spelling
of their names, and if the spelling is wrong, the index will be wrong, an absolute nightmare in genealogy, and one that causes endless problems when looking into a family tree.
Replacement Marriage Certificates from Buckinghamshire
All Buckinghamshire marriage certificates we supply are fully certified or extract copies which are suitable for all official purposes. Some reasons for obtaining a certificate include an application for Adoption, applying for an academic course, applying for a passport or a driver's licence. One of the most common reasons is that the original certificate was lost or mislaid.
Original marriage certificates do not require a signed release or similar for the order to be processed. Nor does further documentation (e.g. driver's licence or passport) have to produced. Generally, there will be no special needs for the order to be completed, beyond the initial supplying of information and payment.
There is no choice between non certified and certified - all certificates issued are certified. All certificates issued are issued with an official seal, some certificates have a raised seal or a stamped seal.
Details on a Buckinghamshire marriage certificate
The marriage certificate also gives their addresses at the time of marriage, their fathers'
forenames and surnames (or "deceased" where applicable), as well as their fathers' professions.
Underneath there's information on where the marriage took place, the names of the witnesses and
who officiated, who will often be relatives, giving more information to the overall family history.
Where you have the precise ages of the bride and groom, it now becomes much easier to go back and find their
replacement birth certificates. If there's an indication of a previous marriage, you have an entirely new trail to explore for the family tree!
I live outside the UK. Will my Buckinghamshire marriage certificate be accepted for use outside the UK?
If you are using the Buckinghamshire marriage certificate to get a British Passport, regardless of where you reside, you can use the Buckinghamshire marriage certificate without any legalisation process.
For overseas clients, that need to validate the authenticity of the certificate as having been produced in the UK, we also offer an apostille/legalisation service, whereby an apostille is attached to the reverse of the certificate. We always recommend checking with whoever you are presenting the certificate to, to identify if the apostille stamp is needed.
The Apostille Certificate is normally requested by foreign authorities and organisations so that the certificate can be used for official purposes outside of the UK. This means that the documents have to be legalised correctly before you travel and often within a specific time period.
Legalisation is usually required by foreign authorities before they will allow a UK certificate to be used for official purposes in their country. Apostille Certificates issued in the UK will be accepted but for the following countries they would require further legalisation. Obtain further Legalisation for the Middle East, UAE Legalisation Service, Qatar Legalisation Service or Kuwait Legalisation Service or Egypt Legalisation Service.
Replacement of a lost Buckinghamshire marriage certificate
The minimum information we will require for a marriage record in Buckinghamshire is:
- Did the event take place in Buckinghamshire?
- Name of the bride or groom
- Approximate Year of Marriage
We can carry out searches of marriage records in the Buckinghamshire area for details of marriages usually for copy marriage certificates. Copy marriage certificates can only be obtained via the online order form, the certificate would contain the marriage details first registered.
Why would I need a copy of a Buckinghamshire marriage certificate?
If you have lost a marriage certificate ? or Need a new marriage certificate, or just require a replacement marriage certificates, copy marriage certiifcate, or a certified marriage certificate, or a duplicate marriage certificate, or need to obtain a wedding certificates, simply complete our online form, make a payment and we will do the rest.
Further Information for Buckinghamshire records
Registers of births, marriages and deaths
Copies of birth certificates
Copies of marriage certificates
Copies of death certificates
Copies of divorce certificates
Apostille Certificate Service
Family History certificates
How to marry
You can get married by a civil ceremony or a religious ceremony. In both cases, the following legal requirements must be met:-
The marriage must be conducted by a person or in the presence of a person authorised to register marriages in the district
The marriage must be entered in the marriage register and signed by both parties, two witnesses, the person who conducted the ceremony and, if that person is not authorised to register marriages, the person who is registering the marriage.
Apply via the Post
To apply via the post, write to the following address:
UK Official Records
(Buckinghamshire Marriage Certificate)
4200 Waterside Centre
Birmingham
B 3 7 7 Y N
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