THE CITY OF LEICESTER REGISTER OFFICE

The office is situated at:

The Register Office

Town Hall

Town Hall Square

Leicester

LE1 9BG

Tel: 0845 045 0901

Fax: 0116 2914676

The links on the left for this section contain details of how to register births, deaths and marriages, how to obtain copy certificates and how to contact us.

The staff at the office register 9,500 births and 5,700 deaths annually. In addition around 1,000 marriage ceremonies take place within the building every year together with an increasing number of civil partnership registrations.

As part of the legal preliminaries to their wedding the citizens of the City of Leicester who wish to marry anywhere other than the Church of England must give a legal notice of their intention to marry. In the course of a year more than 2,000 notices are entered in the records of this office.

The original records of all births, deaths and marriages which have taken place in the City of Leicester since 1837 are kept at the register office. Every year approximately 12,000 certified copies are issued from these historic records.

“Serving people at life’s key moments”

The information contained in these Internet pages is for general information only and is not a statement of law.

Further information can be obtained from the Register Office for the City of Leicester: