Hi
St Martins in the Fields is in Westminster not in Finsbury which is in the present London borough of Islington.
The Bishops Transcripts (copies of the registers sent yearly to the Bishop - not always done, not always surviving and like all copies may have errors) are online but the registers themselves are held at Westminster Archives.
There is no John Fowler burial in 1804.
Is it this man who left a Prerogative Court of Canterbury will proved in 1804?
Will of John Fowler, Tin Plate Worker of Saint Martin in the Fields , Middlesex 24 January 1804 PROB 11/1403
The will was proved at the very beginning of 1804. Even if the family went immediately to try and prove the will it would take some weeks at least before that happened and they may have taken a lot longer after the death before the process was begun. What you can surmise is the death would have occurred after on or the day the will was signed and before the date it was proved. If this was the will of the John Fowler you are interested in what date was the signature to the will?
Where someone was buried was not necessarily the parish they were living in if for instance they wished to be buried in the same churchyard as someone who had died before them when they had lived in a previous parish. If it is the correct will does it give any clues to a place of burial. Does it give John Fowler's exact address?
Ages on burial come into parish registers formally at the beginning of 1813. Some clerks did enter them into earlier registers but it is very much a hit and miss affair and many registers did not contain them.
Regards
Valda
