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Why two death entries?

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Chris Ho :)

Chris Ho :) Report 1 Aug 2010 07:48

There is a cremation for Didcott Violet Lilian in Cambridge 1999.
Details can be viewed on deceased online. (a pay to view site, giving date of death, cremation, and home address)

www.deceasedonline.com

Chris :)

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 1 Aug 2010 07:02

This might be what is going on


from ancestry


England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005

Name: Violet L Baldock
Spouse Surname: Didcott
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1969
Registration district: Saffron Walden
Registration county (inferred): Essex
Volume Number: 4a
Page Number: 2398
Find Spouse: Ronald D Didcott




whoever registered the death knew that she had two names ....... and entered them both on the death certificate. Then both names have been transcribed into the GRO register.


was Baldock her maiden name, or the name of her first husband???





sylvia

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 1 Aug 2010 06:32

There is only one registration, not two.

Registration district: Cambridge
Inferred County: Cambridgeshire
Register number: A53C
District and Subdistrict: 3311A
Entry number: 137

However, there are two entries in the index, which is not quite the same thing. There are, presumably, two surnames quoted on the certificate, and the thoughtful clerk at the GRO choose to enter both in the index.

Ordering the cert will confirm what is going on.

Madmeg

Madmeg Report 1 Aug 2010 03:37

Thanks Rose, but why would this happen? Any idea?

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 1 Aug 2010 03:33

There was another thread that had this a few weeks ago and woman was listed under both of her married surnames in the death index.

Rose

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I am not related to you and I'm not your husband's first wife!

Madmeg

Madmeg Report 1 Aug 2010 02:31

EDIT - please don't look for this woman, there is another thread doing that, I just wanted ideas as to why it might happen. She did marry Mr Didcott (in her 50s), we think she was previously married to a Mr Baldock, but no marriage has been found.

Why are there two death entries for the same woman?

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
about Violet Lilian Didcott
Name: Violet Lilian Didcott
Birth Date: 6 Dec 1917
Death Registration Month/Year: Dec 1999
Age at death (estimated): 82
Registration district: Cambridge
Inferred County: Cambridgeshire
Register number: A53C
District and Subdistrict: 3311A
Entry number: 137

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
about Violet Lilian Baldock
Name: Violet Lilian Baldock
Birth Date: 6 Dec 1917
Death Registration Month/Year: Dec 1999
Age at death (estimated): 82
Registration district: Cambridge
Inferred County: Cambridgeshire
Register number: A53C
District and Subdistrict: 3311A
Entry number: 137

Explanations gratefully received.