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In the Civil Registration Index of marriages I have just found a couple of cases where a woman marrying for a second time is recorded twice, once with her maiden name and also as a separate entry with her married name from her first marriage. The single entry for the spouse of the second marriage has both maiden name and married name of the women record (recorded as "name 1" or "name 2".

Is this the norm or have I just been lucky? The maiden names were rare and easily found, the married names were widely used and so the second marriages would probably have remained undiscovered. the years were 1932 and 1953.

Simon

I have downloaded a number of ‘Burial slips’ from the midlands historical data site for burials at Warwick Cemetery. These give name and address of deceased, address of where death occurred, date of death, date and time of when the burial was to be, plot number, where the funeral was to be and also the size of the coffin (for the grave digger). Each slip cost me 15p, a bargain for all that information.

My question is about the coffin size. Does anyone know how much bigger than the occupant (as it were) that the coffin would be? I have various coffin sizes of between 5’6” and 6”, but great great Granddad George’s coffin was 6’4” which made him much taller than everyone else, but how tall?. Are we talking about the width of the box at each end of the coffin as the difference, do we stretch or shrink after death, would he have his shoes on. If as it seems he was over 6” he would have been pretty tall for someone born in 1841.

Another thing that I noticed was that each married couple was buried in the same plot. Was this a matter of course for a husband and wife, or would someone have to specify this?

Simon

Hi,

Could someone kindly look up William Meller born about 1796  please. He is somewhere in Staffordshire with wife Ann, and was born in Hartlebury Worcestershire.

thank You

Simon

Hi,

Could someone look up sisters Esther and Annie Willitts (maybe seen as Willetts) in Leamington Priors please. Not sure if they will be together or not.

Thanks
Simon