Certificate Copies

Requesting Copy Certificates

You can apply for copy certificates for births, marriages, and deaths registered in Cardiff from 1837 onwards (the year official records began).

Civil partnership records are available from 2005 onwards.

Information Required

To process your application, please provide the following details:

The type of certificate: birth, marriage, civil partnership, or death
Full name(s) as recorded on the certificate
Date of the event
Location of the event
Parents’ names (for birth certificates)
Any additional information that may help us locate the record

Please note: We can only issue copy certificates if we hold the original register entry. If we do not have the record, you will need to contact the register office that does or you can contact the General Register Office who hold all records for England and Wales.

All adoption certificates are held with General Register Office

How to Apply

Online

What type of certificate do you need?

Please note: We cannot take payment online, please complete the form and we will call you to take payment using a credit or debit card.

Birth details

* Forename(s) at Birth

* Surname at Birth

* Date of Birth

* Place of Birth

Parent details

Father / **Parent’s Forename(s)

Father / **Parent’s Surname

* Mothers Forename

* Mothers Surname

Mothers Maiden Name

** Parent means the mother’s female partner who under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 is to be treated as a parent of the child

Death details

* Forename(s)

* Surname

* Date of death

* Place of death

Date of birth

Maiden surname

Home address

Marriage details

* Forename(s) of Party 1

* Surname of Party 1

* Forename(s) of Party 2

* Surname of Party 2

* Date of marriage

* Place of marriage (Name of venue)

Civil partnership details

* Forename(s) of Party 1

* Surname of Party 1

* Forename(s) of Party 2

* Surname of Party 2

* Date of Civil Partnership

* Place of Civil Partnership

Your Contact Details

* First Name

* Last Name

* Email

* Telephone

Your Address

* Address line 1

Address line 2

* City / Town

State / Province / Region

* Zip / Postal code

* Country

Delivery

Number of copies required?

Service
Standard service : £12.50Priority service : £38.50

Standard service: Copy certificates ordered will be posted out second class within 15 working days following successful payment at a cost of £12.50 per certificate.

Priority service: Copy certificates can be ordered Monday to Friday and will be sent first class the next working day following successful payment at a cost of £38.50 per certificate.

Postage
2nd Class1st Class (free with priority) - £1Signed for first class : £2Airmail : £2.50

Cost

£38.50

Please note: We cannot take payment online. We will call you to take payment using a credit or debit card.

* Required information

By phone

By calling us on 029 2087 1680 and paying with a debit or credit card.

By post

Print out and complete the form you need:

Birth certificate application (41.7kb PDF)
Death certificate application (39.7kb PDF)
Marriage certificate application (31.9kb PDF)
Civil partnership certificate application (180kb PDF)

Certificates are £12.50 each and you will need to include a postal order made out to Cardiff Council with your application. Please send to:

Register Office
Glamorgan Archives
Clos Parc Morgannwg
Cardiff
CF11 8AW

We will issue the certificate by second class post within 15 working days.
Please note we do not accept cash payments.