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Thank you for explaining what may have happened

Tawny

If the two deaths were rego'ed at the same sub-registers office, so they both appeared in that offices register on the same (or consecutive) pages, then they will appear on the same or consecutive pages in the GRO's copy.

At the end of each quarter, the sub-offices send a copy of their BMD registers to the district superintendent, who bundles them all up, I think adding the copies from the churches that are authorized to keep registers, and ships them off to the GRO, who then bind them together into volumes.
NB I don't actually know this - i'm just guessing.

What I do know is that a GRO page doesn't contain stuff from all over the RD - just from one sub-district, and those are in the same order as the local register.

To take an example (picking one where the local register entry # is online at LancsBMD) I've appended the local ref #:

Deaths Mar 1851 (>99%)
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ALKER Margaret Wigan 21 648 ASPL/5/161
CATTERALL Ann Wigan 21 648 ASPL/5/157
DARBYSHIRE Thomas Wigan 21 648 ASPL/5/154
ECCLESTONE Margaret Wigan 21 648 ASPL/5/159
HODKINSON Mary Wigan 21 648 ASPL/5/158
JACKSON Joseph Wigan 21 648 ASPL/5/162
MARSDEN Hannah Wigan 21 648 ASPL/5/163
MASON Nathanael Wigan 21 648 ASPL/5/155
MILNER Ann Wigan 21 648 ASPL/5/160
MORRIS Ann Wigan 21 648 ASPL/5/156


FreeBMD image says
DARBYSHIRE William Wigan 21 648
[Correction submitted to FreeBMD]

ASPL is the local code for Aspull sub-district. Note they're still one their 5th register, so by now the local page boundaries will be out of synch with the GRO's page boundaries. Also note that a registration on 31/3/1851 in Aspull will have a lower GRO page # than one on 1/1/1851 in Wigan, say, even though both will appear in the GRO index under Wigan.

Even if they were registered on the same day, it doesn't necessarily follow that they will appear on the same page at the GRO. The GRO is made up in the order they happened to be transcribed following receipt of details from the various Register Offices.

Just read this with interest.
My grandparents both died on the same day in 1966. However, my Nan was in hospital in Edmonton and my Grandad was knocked over in a road accident in Tottenham and died later from his injuries - he was on his way to visit Nan.
Although I have never had to search for info, as my Mum had the death certs, they were issued separately.

Thank you for replying. I will need to wait for certs and maybe cause of death may give a clue as to the delay.

Tawny

If two deaths within the same family happened on the same day would they not be registered on the same day?

I have a husband and wife whose deaths are both registered in the same quarter and year. A family member told me they died on the same day(have ordered death certs to confirm) but one death is on page 317 and one death is on page 292

Tawny