Just a quickie... anyone know if you needed to have a death certificate to bury someone in 1862?
Wondering if there's something fishy going on here. I have the burial, from parish registers, and a newspaper announcement TWO WEEKS after the death (Usually deaths were reported within days) From this, I know the actual date and address. Almost as if they didn't want anyone to know. His wife had committed suicide about 18 months earlier, leaving two small children, and his father had died three months earlier, having insulted him in his Will.
Can't find any sign of a death registration, and I've tried all sorts of variant spellings on both FreeBMD and the GRO.
I'm on the point of going to the local register office to see if they can help (they aren't generally too happy unless you can supply a reference) as I'm thinking this might be one that never made it to the GRO.
Any ideas?
Wondering if there's something fishy going on here. I have the burial, from parish registers, and a newspaper announcement TWO WEEKS after the death (Usually deaths were reported within days) From this, I know the actual date and address. Almost as if they didn't want anyone to know. His wife had committed suicide about 18 months earlier, leaving two small children, and his father had died three months earlier, having insulted him in his Will.
Can't find any sign of a death registration, and I've tried all sorts of variant spellings on both FreeBMD and the GRO.
I'm on the point of going to the local register office to see if they can help (they aren't generally too happy unless you can supply a reference) as I'm thinking this might be one that never made it to the GRO.
Any ideas?
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