Service Description: To register a birth and obtain certificates. Both parents must attend together if they are not married, to be named in the register entry. When registering twins a double appointment is required. Re-registrations to add father's details if not given when first registered or to show that Mother and Father are now married to one another if not married at time of registration.
Also known as:- Birth Certificates, Births, Births Historical Searches, Copy certificates births, Naming Ceremonies
Answer: First names can be changed within one year of the registration of the birth by baptism or certificate of naming (please ask the Register Office for further information). Surnames can be changed if the baby's birth is re-registered after the baby's parents marry or to add the father's name to the registration.