name changed by deedpoll could I find records

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Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 4 785 Send Message	Val wish I'd never started	Report	30 Jul 2005 15:19
	a relative came here from Russia signed at the police station every week as a foreigner he was given a job but they said it would be better if he changed his name so he did so by deedpoll as it was officially done and over 50 years ago would there be a way of getting the records thanks
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 5 185 Send Message	Pam	Report	30 Jul 2005 16:21
	Documents known as Deed Polls are kept in books lodged with The National Archive at Kew. From 1914 it was necessary, in order to enroll the deed at court, to advertise the change of name in the London Gazette. Pam Best
	Researching: Middlesex, Berkshire and Somerset
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 4 785 Send Message	Val wish I'd never started	Report	30 Jul 2005 20:22
	thanks Pam I will see what I can fnd out from them
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	30 Jul 2005 23:03
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Valerie A link to the Nat. Archives information leaflet about deed polls: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/name/ nell
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 4 785 Send Message	Val wish I'd never started	Report	30 Jul 2005 23:33
	thanks for that Helen much appreciated