Deaths

Register a death

You are legally required to register a death within 5 days, unless the death is being investigated with a coroner.

• Register a death

Register a still-birth

A still-birth must be registered within 42 days at the Register Office in the borough where it took place.

• Register a still birth
  

Copy death certificates

• Order copy of a death certificate

We can post it to you or you can collect the certificate from the register office.

Change a death certificate 

• Correct a death registration error

Coping with bereavement 

Tell Us Once helps make it easier to inform the relevant organisations of a persons death.

The Wandsworth Bereavement Service offers one-to-one counselling for Wandsworth residents.