Births, deaths and marriages
Find out how to register a birth, death or marriage, and get useful information on venues, ceremonies and family history research.
Advice on registering or re-registering your child's birth, and information on support available after birth. You can now make an appointment to register a birth online.
Helping you make the necessary decisions and arrangements when someone dies. You can now make an appointment to register a death online.
Advice on planning your wedding, including choices of venues and legal formalities. You can now make an appointment online to give notice of marriage.
A legal relationship, which can be formed by two people of the same sex, giving them the ability to obtain legal recognition for their relationship. You can now make an appointment online to give notice of civil partnership.
Everyone who applies for British citizenship is required to take an oath or affirmation of allegiance to the Crown, and make a pledge of loyalty to the United Kingdom. Oxfordshire County Council is offering a Nationality Checking Service to assist people who wish to apply to become British Citizens.
How to arrange citizenship ceremonies, naming ceremonies, renewal of vows and commitment ceremonies.
We offer over 80 licensed venues for civil (non-religious) ceremonies across Oxfordshire.
How to get a certificate for a birth, death, marriage or civil partnership that was registered in Oxfordshire.
What to do if you want to search the birth, death and marriage indexes in the superintendent registrar's office.
How much it costs for birth, death and marriage and civil partnership certificates, attendance of registrars at weddings, and searching family history.
Payment of ceremony fees
You can now pay for your wedding or civil partnership ceremony online after your provisional booking has been confirmed.
How transsexual people can apply for legal recognition in their acquired gender.
The locations of the eight registration offices in Oxfordshire, where you can register births, deaths or marriages. Take a virtual tour of our ceremony rooms.
Oxfordshire Registration Service regularly carries out surveys to help improve our services and ensure that we are meeting the needs of our customers.
You can email the Registration Service with your comments or choose from a range of options for commenting on council services.
Contact us
There are eight registration offices across the county. If you want to see a registrar, it is essential that you make an appointment. For availability of Registrars, information and advice across Oxfordshire, please telephone 0845 129 5900 (Monday to Thursday - 9am to 4.30pm, and Friday - 9am to 4pm).
Oxford Register Office is open:
- Monday, Tuesday and Thursday: 9am - 4.30pm
- Wednesday: 9am - 6.30pm (last appointment to register a death 4pm)
- Friday: 9am - 4pm
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