Marriage Certificate Replacement
Order a Replacement Marriage Certificate, suitable for both legal and family history uses. If you have lost your marriage certificate UK, or need one for family history purposes, this replacement copy will help you.
Duplicate 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
Replacement Marriage Certificates
All copy marriage certificates we supply are fully certified copies which are
suitable for all official purposes. Some reasons for obtaining a certificate
include an application for marriage, 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.
Replacement 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.
Types of replacement marriage certificates
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.
We can supply marriage certificates from the United Kingdom (UK) of Great
Britain (GB)
England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and many overseas
births where the location was once a British territory, or if the event was
registered with a British consulate.
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
birth certificates. If there's an indication of a previous marriage, you have an entirely new trail to explore for the family tree!
Require an Apostille (Legalised) UK Certificate? An Apostille is a certificate confirming that a signature or a seal on a certificate is genuine. The process of obtaining an Apostille is called Legalisation.
Legalisation is usually required by foreign authorities before they will allow a UK document to be used for official purposes in their country. Apostille Certificates issued in the UK will be accepted in the following countries without further legalisation - Apostille Countries.
Replacement of a lost marriage certificate
Searches of the records in UKOS's Office for details of marriages usually for copy certificates. Copy certificates can only be obtained via the online order form, the certificate would contain the marriage details first registered. The minimum information needed to find an entry is the name of the brides or grooms name, place of marriage and year the marriage took place.
Further Information
Registers of births, marriages and deaths
Copies of marriage certificates
Copies of birth certificates
Copies of death certificates
When you get a Replacement marriage certificate, it 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.
We assume that the information supplied is accurate, and so cannot bear
responsibility for any issues developing from any information which is
inaccurately supplied. However, we will endeavour to locate and order the
correct certificate, and so if the information supplied does not match the
records we locate, we will contact you to resolve this.