The saga continues. Email this morning from the GRO, thanking us for the scanned copy of the original. Allegedly they have now found Mrs O's details and will dispatch replacement post haste. Allegedly the details were ommited from the indexes, but it has subsequently been added.
Two further things of note, the first was that the register number they listed was different from the one on the certificate (which was actually written in words not numbers, which makes it harder to believe a mistake) and the second was that their email could not even get my wifes surname right!
So if register and entry number are that important, you would think the on-line form would ask for them (if known)....
So currently we have copies coming from the Maltese public records and the UK GRO, let see if they actually match the original.
Tune in next week for the next thrilling installment.