Death certificate

bombom66

msb1234 said:

bombom66 said:

msb1234 said:

Regardless of whether they asked her about the death certificate or not, surely you can see that they would have needed more than your wife’s say so about her brother’s death in order to hand over his share of their mother’s estate? The solicitor can only go off what they are told. I should imagine that if your wife gave them the details about her brother and asked them to trace his death certificate they will do so, at a cost.

What I’m saying is when his mother notified them (solicitor)he had died in 2019/20 they didn’t ask for the death certificate then they should have so when my wife went to see them last week they said they knew he had died 2019 as it was in there records so that’s why they gave her the go ahead to sell the house they also can’t find the death certificate we’ve asked them to search like  I keep saying it’s not on the database 

Having just re read your reply here, I realised that your wife’s mother notified her solicitor of her son’s death when he died. Why did she do this? That’s an odd thing to do unless it was to change her will. Why would they need to see a death certificate at that point? Even if she changed her will, they still wouldn’t need to see it. 

As someone else has said, it’s the solicitor dealing with your mother-in-law’s estate that needs to find the death certificate. 

The hospital where he died should have the records of his death, especially as his organs were donated. If your wife contacts them they should be able to confirm the exact date of death. They would also have provided a medical certificate to show the cause of death which would then have been needed by the registrar when registering the death. 

We have the exact date of death no one can find him on the death register 

Flugelhorn

I am thinking it is coming to the point where the hospital (at the request of the registrar / solicitor) reissue the MCCD and the registrar reissues the death cert 

bombom66

Flugelhorn said:

I am thinking it is coming to the point where the hospital (at the request of the registrar / solicitor) reissue the MCCD and the registrar reissues the death cert 

Yeah we are going to ring the hospital tomorrow 

Flugelhorn

bombom66 said:

Flugelhorn said:

I am thinking it is coming to the point where the hospital (at the request of the registrar / solicitor) reissue the MCCD and the registrar reissues the death cert 

Yeah we are going to ring the hospital tomorrow 

Contact the Bereavement services team - they are more likely to listen https://www.sth.nhs.uk/services/a-z-of-services?id=299

bobster2

bombom66 said:

Flugelhorn said:

I am thinking it is coming to the point where the hospital (at the request of the registrar / solicitor) reissue the MCCD and the registrar reissues the death cert 

Yeah we are going to ring the hospital tomorrow 

So - were the hospital or coroner any help?

bombom66

bobster2 said:

bombom66 said:

Flugelhorn said:

I am thinking it is coming to the point where the hospital (at the request of the registrar / solicitor) reissue the MCCD and the registrar reissues the death cert 

Yeah we are going to ring the hospital tomorrow 

So - were the hospital or coroner any help?

bobster2 said:

bombom66 said:

Flugelhorn said:

I am thinking it is coming to the point where the hospital (at the request of the registrar / solicitor) reissue the MCCD and the registrar reissues the death cert 

Yeah we are going to ring the hospital tomorrow 

So - were the hospital or coroner any help?

bobster2 said:

bombom66 said:

Flugelhorn said:

I am thinking it is coming to the point where the hospital (at the request of the registrar / solicitor) reissue the MCCD and the registrar reissues the death cert 

Yeah we are going to ring the hospital tomorrow 

So - were the hospital or coroner any help?

bobster2 said:

bombom66 said:

Flugelhorn said:

I am thinking it is coming to the point where the hospital (at the request of the registrar / solicitor) reissue the MCCD and the registrar reissues the death cert 

Yeah we are going to ring the hospital tomorrow 

So - were the hospital or coroner any help?

Hospital doesn’t answer we rang bereavement services who told us to ring another number where records are kept forever it goes to automated answering machine says to leave a message there’s not enough time to leave a message before it cuts you off so emailed them had no reply rang Sheffield yet again after 30 mins they again said they would ring us back we said you said that twice last week and never rang we demanded to speak to a manager 15 mins later manager answered and said they can’t find it so we said so what do we do he said he promised he would look into and call us back tomorrow yet again 😒

thegreenone

A bit of a long shot..............  try searching for 18/longer months after death.  My FiL died in hospital, inquest, coroner etc etc and it was a long time after he died that his official death certificate was issued. Just an avenue.

bombom66

thegreenone said:

A bit of a long shot..............  try searching for 18/longer months after death.  My FiL died in hospital, inquest, coroner etc etc and it was a long time after he died that his official death certificate was issued. Just an avenue.

Thanks already done that 👍

bombom66

Just a update they have finally rang back to apologise to say that it was missed off they forgot to do it and that it should be available in two days 

Grumpelstiltskin

Great, you didn't give up .