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Can anyone find anything in the press about this death please? I just got the pdf cert. this morning in the hope of finding out exactly where she died and that her father might have been the informant which would have a) given his occupation and b) given me a date from which to look for his own death. A search for a John Harrison of uncertain age in The Potteries area is a true needle in a haystack 
Annoyingly the death cert only says she died in Etruria which is not helpful and the informant was not a family member but W. Harding, the coroner for Burslem. This would fit with the girl dying in Etruria as it was an area stuffed full of pottery firms.
However, I am hoping that the girl actually lived in Tunstall which is about 3 miles from Etruria as the crow flies. I have her birth certificate and also what I am certain, is her burial, both of which were in Tunstall. The date of death is 31 January 1852 and the burial was 3 February 1852 but the death certificate was not issued till 29 March 1852 just about 2 months after her death. The cause of death was "Visitation of God". 1852 is a bit late for that kind of terminology as the powers that be had been trying to stamp out such non specific causes of death since the beginning of civil registration. Maybe it took 15 years and more for The Potteries area coroners to catch on? :D Surely with the cause of death and the time it took for the death certificate to be issued, there had to have been something reported in the papers?
Below are her birth certificate, her baptism, her family on the 1841 census, her burial entry and her death certificate. I have tried every which way to find her either on her own or with her family in the 1851 census but I cannot find her on either ancestry or FMP. She was very much alive so where is she?? She is not in any tree except for mine and that of the daughter of my cousin.
HARRISON, Charlotte Birth Certificate 1839.jpg
Charlotte HARRISON Baptism 1839 GBPRS_STAFF_004029902_00551.jpg Right hand page, 2nd last entry
John and Mary Ann Harrison 1841 Census-0993_0487.jpg Left hand page, 2nd household
Charlotte HARRISON Burial 1852 GBPRS_STAFF_004029901_00742.jpg Right hand page, 3rd last entry
HARRISON, Charlotte Death Certificate 1852.jpg
Annoyingly the death cert only says she died in Etruria which is not helpful and the informant was not a family member but W. Harding, the coroner for Burslem. This would fit with the girl dying in Etruria as it was an area stuffed full of pottery firms.
However, I am hoping that the girl actually lived in Tunstall which is about 3 miles from Etruria as the crow flies. I have her birth certificate and also what I am certain, is her burial, both of which were in Tunstall. The date of death is 31 January 1852 and the burial was 3 February 1852 but the death certificate was not issued till 29 March 1852 just about 2 months after her death. The cause of death was "Visitation of God". 1852 is a bit late for that kind of terminology as the powers that be had been trying to stamp out such non specific causes of death since the beginning of civil registration. Maybe it took 15 years and more for The Potteries area coroners to catch on? :D Surely with the cause of death and the time it took for the death certificate to be issued, there had to have been something reported in the papers?
Below are her birth certificate, her baptism, her family on the 1841 census, her burial entry and her death certificate. I have tried every which way to find her either on her own or with her family in the 1851 census but I cannot find her on either ancestry or FMP. She was very much alive so where is she?? She is not in any tree except for mine and that of the daughter of my cousin.
HARRISON, Charlotte Birth Certificate 1839.jpg
Charlotte HARRISON Baptism 1839 GBPRS_STAFF_004029902_00551.jpg Right hand page, 2nd last entry
John and Mary Ann Harrison 1841 Census-0993_0487.jpg Left hand page, 2nd household
Charlotte HARRISON Burial 1852 GBPRS_STAFF_004029901_00742.jpg Right hand page, 3rd last entry
HARRISON, Charlotte Death Certificate 1852.jpg
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