Saint Lucia Civil Registration

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Civil Registration

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How to Find the Records

Offices to Contact

Ministry of Home Affairs, Justice and National Security
Civil Status Section
Castries
Saint Lucia

Telephone: (758) 468-3195
Email: districtregistrarcastries.legalaffairs@govt.lc

Apply for a Birth Certificate
Apply for a Certificate of Adoption

Application for a Vital Record

Historical Background

Native peoples lived on the island before Europeans came. The island switch back and forth several times between the French and British. The British gained final control in 1814. Enslaved people from Africa were brought to work on the sugar plantations by the 1700s. Slavery was fully abolished in 1838. Though an independent country, it is part of the British Commonwealth.

Information Recorded in the Records

Birth Records

• Name of baby
• Gender
• Date of birth
• Place of birth
• Maiden name of mother
• Name of father

Death Records

Not sure if all or only some of the certificates. "This is information about the person who is named on the certificate."

• First Name, Last Name
  
• If married, enter the maiden name as the last name
  
• Middle Name(s)
  
• Date of birth
  
• Place of birth
  
• Mother’s legal name
  
• Mother's maiden name
  
• Mother’s alias
  
• Father’s name
  
• Father’s alias
  

• Date of death
  
• Date of adoption