Hi
FreeBMD is complete for 1859
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/progressD.shtml#1850It was compulsory to register deaths. The imposing of fines in 1875 concerned the non-registration of births the only one of the three life events where officials were not necessarily involved. Marriages and deaths required officials to be involved. No death registration in theory no burial in a churchyard or cemetery (a coroner's order however would allow burials before an inquest). Deaths and burials had legislation governing them even before the start of civil registration.
The GRO index is not by any means perfect. I have a birth certificate from Newcastle registrar for a birth in 1842 that cannot be obtained from the GRO because the birth does not appear in the index, though it was obviously locally registered.
Contact Anglesey registration office and see if they have a death certificate for him.
http://www.anglesey.gov.uk/community/birth-marriage-and-death/tracing-your-family-tree/There obviously was an attempt to identify as many bodies as possible even exhuming some.
http://www.royalcharterchurch.org.uk/wreck.html'Rector Stephen Roose HUGHES, maintained a burial register of ‘unknowns’ in which he noted carefully every detail which might possibly assist identification later – tattoo marks, which the sailors often wore, as if with that very possibility in mind; receipts for parrots, which many of the dead carried with them; miniatures of women; scraps of letters; locks of hair worn in lockets around the neck; and the physical characteristics of the corpses. Stephen Roose HUGHES was able to identify a body of a Jewish passenger, he had the body exhumed and then re-buried with due observance of the rites of the Jews.'
'The body of Issacher Marks was finally buried in Deane Road Cemetery Liverpool on 16th November with a note in the burial registers, “Wrecked in Royal Charter”.'http://www.deaneroadcemetery.com/biographies.htm#MarksI can't find a death registration for him though it is obvious that subsequently his body was identified.
The coroner at the inquest should have issued the death certificates on the bodies found but they would largely be for unknown - still there doesn't seem enough of those registered for the number of bodies that were found.
'The Coroner Mr. W. JONES, apologized for being unable to get an entirely English-speaking jury, they were, however, the most respectable farmers of the district he could find.'Anglesey local registration office will know much more about the event and might be able to explain what happened and why so few bodies do appear to have been registered.
Regards
Valda
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