Genealogy Chat

Thank you all for your answers. Steve.

That could have been the right death and the woman really was widowed; she just had a child by another man but used her deceased husband's name on the birth certificate to save face. Have you checked the quarter immediately after the census? If she was heavily pregnant then she may not have been able to get to the registrar. Or perhaps someone else registered the death and made a mistake. No burial could take place without a death certificate, except during a crisis when the authorities were less pedantic.

There is this death on Ancestry:- Name: Robbins, Henry Record Type: Deaths Quarter: December Year: 1859 District: Chelsea (1841-1981) County: Greater London London Middlesex Volume: 1a Page: 134 Don't know if this is your man, but could be. Sorry, just realised that this would be too early. Kath. x

His father was Henry Robbins and I have all the certificates except Henry's death, thats why I was wondering if you could die and not be registered.Steve

Could he have run off and his wife classed herself as widowed to keep face? Do you have Williams birth cert? It will give his father and then you can do a search for him. Anne.

...for someone to die in London in the 1860's and not have their death registered. My Grt Grandfather William Robbins was born two weeks before the 1861 census in Marylebone, on the 61 census his mother is down as widowed. I have searched the records but can't find his fathers death. Any ideas? please. Steve.