Alexander Young, drowned at Peterhead?

[tidybooks]

Even knowing the year and that it was an inshore accident, I still can't find a death certificate on SP.

I grew up in Cockenzie and Port Seton, and have had my fair share of drownings in my family. I note the Death Certificates gave an approxiamate location of where drowning took place, and it was also added that no body had been recovered, in a few instances.

Tom

[Forfarian]

Thanks, Tom. I had been wondering if perhaps there was no certificate because the body had not been recovered, but thank you for confirming that certificates were still issued in the absence of a body.

[cath151]

Hi again,
Sorry, just got in from work. The newspaper reports are available at Findmypast and other sources I m sure.
Cathy

[Forfarian]

I can access the 19th Century British Newspaper Collections through the National Library of Scotland web site.

[cath151]

Reports in following papers , all the same report.1868
1st Oct  John O Groats Journal
26th Sep  Paisley Herald and Renfrewshire Advertisor
26th Sep  Manchester Courier
1st Oct Inverness Courier

Hope this helps
 Cathy

[Forfarian]

Thanks, yes it does. There must be a different selection of papers on FindMyPast.

It was also reported, more or less verbatim, in the Glasgow Herald, 25 September 1868; Leeds Mercury, 25 September 1868; Liverpool Mercury, 25 September 1868; London Standard, 25 September 1868 and Nottinghamshire Guardian, 2 October 1868 !

[Flattybasher9]

As I had not come across this scenario before, I wrote to several people to try and find out why ther was no obvious entry. This afternoon, Karen Brett from National Records of Scotland sent me a copy of a page from a Registration library book, the contents of one paragraph is as follows :-

“Deaths at Sea on board ship, or drowning from a British vessel, are reported by the master to the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, Customs House, London, from whom certified copies or extracts of such events can be produced for a small fee (sec, 254, 56 & 58 Vict. c 60) and some “Results of Precognition” regarding Deaths at Sea out-with the three mile limit are forwarded by the Procurator Fiscal generally to the Register-General of Shipping and Seamen, Customs House, London, where such events are recorded.” 

I don't know if this is the answer or not.

Regards

Malky