In the PRs the vicar/curate, etc would sometime write the date of birth of the baby, and that is fabulously helpful, but I've not seen the date of death in burial registers, only the date of the burial.
So, for all my agricultural labourer ancestors and their wives back in the 1800s, given the lack of refrigeration etc (don't need to go into any detail, do I?) , how many days are there likely to have been between death and burial? I have a child in my Tree who was baptised on 3 October and buried on 7 October the same year. Would 3-4 days be about normal? Fewer in the warmer months, maybe?
It's not that I'm looking to invent dates just so that I can add them to my Tree, it's that I have been rather wondering this for a few weeks and thought I'd get the question asked and out of the way.
Yours cheerfully
STG
So, for all my agricultural labourer ancestors and their wives back in the 1800s, given the lack of refrigeration etc (don't need to go into any detail, do I?) , how many days are there likely to have been between death and burial? I have a child in my Tree who was baptised on 3 October and buried on 7 October the same year. Would 3-4 days be about normal? Fewer in the warmer months, maybe?
It's not that I'm looking to invent dates just so that I can add them to my Tree, it's that I have been rather wondering this for a few weeks and thought I'd get the question asked and out of the way.
Yours cheerfully
STG
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