Musgrave's Obituaries

[miss marple]

Hello all

I've found a reference on Ancestry to one of my ancestors in "Musgrave’s Obituaries Prior to 1800, parts 1 & 2". Does anyone know how you can get access to the full obituary entry? I've drawn a blank at my local library and can't find anything of much help by Googling.

Frustrating!

Jane

[Minn]

Hi Jane

The entire 6 volumes can be purchased on CD here

http://www.archivecdbooks.com.au/Musgraves-Obituary-6-vols-p/gb8039.htm

"Originally written by Sir William Musgrave and compiled from his extensive library, this enormous work is an alphabetical list of peoples names, their date of death and reference to the source of the information."

Entries are from The London Magazine & The Gentleman's Magazine.

Minn

[miss marple]

Thanks for that Minn! It looks as though perhaps there is not much more in Musgrave's itself than Ancestry tells you – date of death and reference to the source of information. The reference on my entry was "LM" which thanks to you now I know is The London Magazine.

On with the hunt!

Thanks again

Jane

[Minn]

Jane - the death notices I have found in The Gentleman's Mag have varied from mostly 2 lines with date, name & place of death, to occasionally lengthy obits running one & a half columns, depending on their social status etc, but I suspect Musgraves would only have the minimum amount of information.

Minn 

[Peter Carpenter]

Of course the full reproduction of Musgrave Obituaries is free on Archive.org - just search "Obituary prior to 1800"
G.M. will be gentlemen's magazine - problem is finding who has copies of this - does not seem to be online. Some very big libraries do - Guildhall library london does

[Kate Chamberlayne]

https://archive.org/details/obituarypriorto02socigoog/page/n5/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater&q=Chamberlayne