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Topic: Different death dates, opinions please. (Read 293 times)
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Jebber
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It is not uncommon for errors to occur on headstones, I have come across several. There is a considerable time delay between burial and the erection of a headsone to allow for settlement, this increases the chance for errors to creep in, I would put my trust in the certificate.
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CHOULES All
COLE Gt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset.
MONK Odiham, Hampshire.
RAM(M)EL(L), Kent.
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.
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aghadowey
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Is there a death notice in the local newspaper? The death certificate and newspaper notice were done right away where as Jebber says there is always a delay in either getting the headstone erected or putting the name and date on an existing headstone (have seen some headstones wrong by a few years).
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Aulus
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A number of gravestones I've found for my lot have differed from the certificates. One has the right date but is a couple of years out!
I agree with the others: I'd go with the certificates.
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Lancashire: Stevenson, Wild, Holden, Jepson Worcs/Staffs: Steventon, Smith East London & Suffolk: Guest, Scrutton East London: Palfreman (prev Tyneside), Bissell, Collis, Dearlove, Ettridge Herts: Camac, Collis, Mason, Dorrington, Siggens Marylebone & Sussex: Cole London & Huntingdonshire: Freeman Bowland: Marsden, Noble Shropshire: Guest Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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suzard
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Have you looked at cemetery records as opposed to MI's
Cemetery records often give date of burial -as opposed to date of death
As at that time burials usually took place 2-3 days after death, they should give a bigger clue as to when the death occurred
Suz
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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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aghadowey
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The reason I suggested the local paper is that I have found one or two death certificates with the wrong date but that may have been to avoid paying a late registration penalty. Mr great-great-grandfather's death notice appeared in the newspaper before the date on his death certificate.
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suzard
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We have come across a wrong date of death on a grave in a Nottingham cemetery
We had birth, marriage, death certs of the person -yet the date of death was 10 years out ! It was a family grave, so the headstone was there before the date this person died -his name was just added to the stone.
looking at the burial record -the burial took place 3 days after the death was registered!!!!
its not making things easy for future family historians!!!
I think it would be a wise move to look at the burial records
Suz
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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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aghadowey
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Several years ago I was in the house of a family connected to mine by marriage. In the room were a man, his wife, brother, sister and several children. As the man's mother had been married to my grandfather's uncle I asked when she died (I didn't have a date in my records as she had remarried after uncle died) and I've never seen such panic. First they could hardly remember if woman or 2nd husband had died first, children were sent to look under stairs for date house was built once they decided mother had died before they moved into house and on it went. Never did get a date from them but they all agreed they should put up a headstone some day!
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