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Burial before Registration?
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Brenda | Report | 17 Feb 2011 13:42 |
My husband's second great-grandather died on 27 May 1849 in the West London Workhouse. On the death certificate the informant was the Coroner and the death was registered on 5 June. According to burial records he was buried on 1 June. Does anyone know, please if the body could have been released for burial after the Coroner's findings but before the death was registered? (I've googled for an answer, without success). |
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Brenda | Report | 17 Feb 2011 14:25 |
Thanks for replying PigletsPal. |
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Chris in Sussex | Report | 17 Feb 2011 14:32 |
I take it he died before the 1st June and was just registered on the 5th? |
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Brenda | Report | 17 Feb 2011 14:43 |
That's what I thought, Chris. Thanks. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 17 Feb 2011 14:45 |
The coroner would have issued an authorization for burial at the same time and Workhouse would have been anxious to get the burial done .As long as there was an authorization for it then the actual death reg wasnt necessary. |
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Chris in Sussex | Report | 17 Feb 2011 14:52 |
Thinking about it...Wasn't it until about 1926?? that there was the requirement that a registrar's certificate or coroner's order be produced before a burial could take place? |
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Chris in Sussex | Report | 17 Feb 2011 14:56 |
Sorry my last post doesn't read too well... |
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Brenda | Report | 17 Feb 2011 15:38 |
Thanks everyone. It's hard to imagine what went on in 1849! |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 17 Feb 2011 20:53 |
I think that sometimes burial can be authorised some time before a death is registered. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 17 Feb 2011 23:21 |
A burial can take place before a death certificate is issued. A certificate of burial is required. My partners sister was buried 8 days after her death but because an inquest was required her death certificate was not issued until a year later. |