Randwick Asylum .... as in where children (err boys) were placed when they had no one caring for them
THANKS MERLIN, was just looking for that link too ...
Manly ...
(I'm being cheeky) did you really mean you wife was born in 1883 ...
Deaths not on BDM online...
short version .... even after civil registrations commenced, the practise of forwarding quarterly returns to the NSW Reg General's BDM office has had its troubles. Up until WWI one of the issues was funding. Also re death certs .... it may seem surprising now, but even until WWI it was possible for a cleryman to bury a person if he was satisfied that the identity had been established, and to bury without a doctor certifying that the person was deceased. Thus there was no document for anyone to complete to forward to the NSW BDM Reg Gen to then issue a formal death certificate. Also, a funeral director could bury without a doctors certificate IF he was directed to so do by a coroner. I have noticed several instances where there was the inquest but no d. c. on the NSW BDM index.
In a practical sense, at the end of each quarter of each year one of the clerical tasks required by the deputy registrars (or their staff) was to compile the returns for HO... When these were completed they were then sent by ordinary mail to HO .... and until the introduction of the typewriter into NSW BDM HO the info was then transferred into HO's ledgers by HANDWRITING ... thinking about how many hands involved, transcription errors etc). So, if a return was either a) not prepared or b) lost in the mail or c) too hard to read and discreetly 'lost' in the paperwork at HO ... then the name is NOT found on the INDEX ....
(And err that's a short version.... sorry)
Cheers, JM
