Genealogy Chat

If someone died, in an accident for example, away from home, would the death have to be registered in that area rather than the home area?

Thankyou :-D

I believe it would have had to have been registered in the area the death occured.

Chris

Thank you Chris :-D I'm just trying to work out if a death 'could' be the right person in the wrong area, I will have to save up for the cert I think :-)

Whilst looking for my gt gt grandmothers death I found one in a different county to where I knew she had been living.

When I checked the burial record for her husband, I found she had been buried with him it stated she had died in Birmingham. She had always been living in Derby until a short time before her death. This confirmed the death reg was the right one.

Another confusing thing for me was it was registered in the quarter after the death occured. Both she and her husband died in their 20's.

Chris

I have a bit of a mystery with this one, she is the second wife and though she was with husband in 1891, 3 years after their marriage, she then 'disappears' ( he is living with son in 1892) and the only likely death is 6 years later,

RR, as I am sure that you are aware divorce at that time was really only the prerogative of the wealthy so in many cases if a marriage broke down the partners often just moved on. In many cases "Moving on" meant setting up home with another partner either by marrying bigamously or, if female, simply adopting her new male partners surname and living as man and wife.

It is often worthwhile doing a check on the next census using just the missing females forename, birthplace and year of birth to see if anything suspicious shows up.

Thanks Jonesy, I will check through again later using just her forename/s as it was late last night when I got bogged down with this one lol. There was unfortunately another of the same (maiden) name who I chased for a while on LMA records etc, but concluded it wasn't her.

It might be that the bride took flight after discovering that her spouse had lied about his age lol, on the cert he is 46 ( really 51) and she was 23!