Am I right in thinking that a death is normally registered before the burial can take place?
I have the following death (from FreeBMD):
Deaths Jun 1852
Screaton James Barrow upon Soar 7a 105
But he was buried in Rothley (in the Barrow reg. district) on 12th March 1852, at the age of 36.
As the death was registered in the 2nd quarter, it must have been registered at least 3 weeks after the death. Does this suggest that there was an inquest?
I hadn't been intending to send for this cert, because James is my GG-grandmother's first husband, and I'm descended from the second husband, but I'm beginning to think there's something a bit fishy about this family.
Mary's father was a William Parkinson, who also died in the first quarter of 1852. In 1851 he was a beadsman in an almshouse, so I assumed he died in poverty. However, I've just discovered that in 1822 he was left £7000 in a nephew's will. The nephew, Thomas Parkinson, who died very young, left a lot of money to the Baptist church.
The Parkinsons (from Quorn, Leicestershire and Sawley, Derbyshire), seem to have been quite wealthy landowners. Most of them converted to the Baptist religion, and were pillars of their local churches. The most prominent members of the family have lengthy obituaries in the Baptist magazines (found with Google book search) and at least a short death notice in the Derby Mercury.
However, despite his generous legacies to the Baptist church, I haven't found any obituary or death notice for Thomas. I did wonder if there might have been some kind of fraud, but his executors were a Baptist minister and his aunt's husband, so it seems unlikely.
Mary Screaton had an illegitimate child (my great-grandfather William) in 1854, and four years later married her second husband William Wood North (who acknowledged William as his natural son). It seems very odd that Mary and William Wood North didn't marry before William Screaton's birth, because they were both free to marry, and both born into Baptist families in a very small village.
I have James' will, and he left his estate to Mary for her lifetime or until her remarriage, and thereafter to their three children.
I've now sent off for the three death certs (William Parkinson, his daughter Mary and her first husband James), to see if they cast any light on the matter. I'm hoping James died from natural causes...
I have the following death (from FreeBMD):
Deaths Jun 1852
Screaton James Barrow upon Soar 7a 105
But he was buried in Rothley (in the Barrow reg. district) on 12th March 1852, at the age of 36.
As the death was registered in the 2nd quarter, it must have been registered at least 3 weeks after the death. Does this suggest that there was an inquest?
I hadn't been intending to send for this cert, because James is my GG-grandmother's first husband, and I'm descended from the second husband, but I'm beginning to think there's something a bit fishy about this family.
Mary's father was a William Parkinson, who also died in the first quarter of 1852. In 1851 he was a beadsman in an almshouse, so I assumed he died in poverty. However, I've just discovered that in 1822 he was left £7000 in a nephew's will. The nephew, Thomas Parkinson, who died very young, left a lot of money to the Baptist church.
The Parkinsons (from Quorn, Leicestershire and Sawley, Derbyshire), seem to have been quite wealthy landowners. Most of them converted to the Baptist religion, and were pillars of their local churches. The most prominent members of the family have lengthy obituaries in the Baptist magazines (found with Google book search) and at least a short death notice in the Derby Mercury.
However, despite his generous legacies to the Baptist church, I haven't found any obituary or death notice for Thomas. I did wonder if there might have been some kind of fraud, but his executors were a Baptist minister and his aunt's husband, so it seems unlikely.
Mary Screaton had an illegitimate child (my great-grandfather William) in 1854, and four years later married her second husband William Wood North (who acknowledged William as his natural son). It seems very odd that Mary and William Wood North didn't marry before William Screaton's birth, because they were both free to marry, and both born into Baptist families in a very small village.
I have James' will, and he left his estate to Mary for her lifetime or until her remarriage, and thereafter to their three children.
I've now sent off for the three death certs (William Parkinson, his daughter Mary and her first husband James), to see if they cast any light on the matter. I'm hoping James died from natural causes...
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