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If someone had changed there name from the one they were born with would it tell you they had changed there name on the death certificate

I have a death certificate of someone who changed their name, and it states their previous name i.e their married name and their maiden name, as well as their current name. Certificate needs to after 1969, before this date it will only state the current name. But if the informant on the cert never knew about the previous names then of course they wouldnt be on there.

No idea, but I think it unlikely. Death cert information is provided by the informant who may or may not know about a change of name and may or may not volunteer it to the registrar who may or may not choose to put it on the cert. This is what it says on the excellent site http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm 'Name and Surname of the Deceased This is the name by which they were known at the time of death. If, therefore, someone started life with a different name but by usage has come to be called something else you will not find any reference to the original name on older certificates. Sometimes people have dropped a first name so that a child named John Stanley FRANCIS at birth might only be known as Stanley FRANCIS by the time they die. Where a child was illegitimate at birth and only registered with mothers details they could only have mothers surname on the birth certificate. However, they might well be known all their life by their fathers surname so eg someone with a birth certificate of Samuel HOLLOWAY might be registered at death as Samuel STEWART. '