Death Booking Questions

IMPORTANT: If you do not receive an email with confirmation of your booking (which would include the time and date of your appointment) your booking may have failed. This can happen even when payment has been taken. In this case please email registeroffice@manchester.gov.uk to confirm whether your booking was successful.

All deaths are registered in person at Manchester Register Office

A death should normally be registered within 5 days unless the Coroner is investigating the circumstances.

If the coroner has not been involved, please book an appointment within 5 days of the date of death. If no appointments are available within this timeframe please book the next available appointment.

Please note that we can only register people who passed away within the City of Manchester.

We can only register people who passed away within the City of Manchester. If the person died outside of the City of Manchester then you will need to register with the Office that covers that area. The City of Manchester does not include Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, or any of the other local authority areas in Greater Manchester. If you are a Manchester resident and wish to register a death that occurred outside Manchester by declaration at Manchester Register Office, please email registeroffice@manchester.gov.uk with the details.

If they passed away in hospital then there are 4 main NHS hospitals within the City of Manchester: The Christie Hospital, Manchester Royal Infirmary, North Manchester General Hospital (Crumpsall) and Wythenshawe Hospital.

If the death took place at home - or elsewhere - then Council Tax for that address would need to be paid to Manchester City Council - Map of Manchester. You can use the link to the following section of our website to check if you are within the Manchester City Council area. 

Manchester is now part of the Tell-Us-Once scheme for deaths. For more information please visit the following section of our website regarding Tell Us Once.