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From: "Geoff Pearson" <>
Subject: Re: Locating a Will
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:42:30 -0000
References: <AurLd.1881$vX2.406@fe48.usenetserver.com> <008901c507bd$e9bc1cc0$0a01a8c0@Atech> <i1BLd.87$RQ5.72@fe81.usenetserver.com> <368thsF4vbotqU1@individual.net>


"Geoff Pearson" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I got my father's death certificate in December (he died in 1973) cost
>11.00 from GRO.
>
> "Miss Perspicacia Tick" <> wrote in message
> news:i1BLd.87$...
>> "Keith NZ" wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Miss Perspicacia Tick" <>
>>> To: <>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:43 AM
>>> Subject: Locating a Will
>>>
>>>
>>>> How would I go about finding my great-grandfather's will? I've asked
>>>> family members (my great-uncle John and my grandfather) but no one
>>>> knows where it is. I know his date of death, but I'm not sure that
>>>> would help - does it? He died 5th May 1958. What information would I
>>>> need to obtain a copy and how much would it, typically, cost? I was
>>>> charged 60 for a copy of his death certificate.
>>>
>>> 60 quid for a death certificate !!!.
>>>
>>> If it was one from England or Wales you were charged nearly nine
>>> times the cost from the GRO/ONS.
>>
>> It *was* from the GRO.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Facon - the artificial bacon bits you get in Pizza Hut for sprinkling
>> on salads.
>>
>>
>
>

forgot to add - I went into GRO myself - it is just down the road from my
office.


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