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The superintendent registrar is Mrs Christine Lois
Maritime Chambers
1 Howard Street
North Shields
NE30 1LZ
General enquiries
Tel: (0191) 200 6164
Fax: (0191) 200 6382
registrars@northtyneside.gov.uk
To register a birth or death
Tel: (0191) 2006164 ext. 2.
Marriage & Civil Partnership enquiries
Tel: (0191) 2006164 ext. 3.
Opening hours
- Monday - Friday 9:30am - 4:00pm
- Saturday by appointment only
The area covered by our registers
North Tyneside RO holds the registers for most of the area now known as "North Tyneside". This comprises most of the registration district identified as "Tynemouth" in the GRO Index. In the 19th century, this was, geographically, a very large district.
For reasons of local loyalty, the records from that period which formed the northern edge (Blyth, Cramlington etc) of the district are now lodged at the Morpeth register office.
The records for the western edge of the district are, in part, located at Newcastle upon Tyne register office.
If you are in doubt, send your application to North Tyneside RO. We will forward it, if necessary, to the appropriate office.
Wallsend formed a large part of the Northumberland South registration district, along with Whitley Bay and parts of Northumberland immediately to the west of Newcastle, such as Newburn. We hold some of these records.
Services we provide
The office provides for the registration of births and deaths in the North Tyneside area.
To make an appointment to register a birth or death, you should contact us on (0191) 200 6117. We will advise you on what information we will need from you.
Brief details are set out in the sections registering a birth or registering a death.
You can also obtain information about the coroner.
We conduct civil marriages and civil partnerships in the North Tyneside area. These can be held at the register office or at licensed venues within North Tyneside.
In this context, the term "licensed" means that the venue (usually a hotel) has been approved by the local authority as a suitable place in which marriages/civil partnerships can be conducted.
A registrar must also attend a marriage at a church which is non-Anglican and which hasn't an "authorised person" who has been trained to properly complete the legal paperwork essential to a marriage.
Most churches have an authorised person, but ask the priest at the church concerned for further information about this aspect.
View further details about marriages and civil partnerships.