General Registery Office - Ann Aston No details?

[ericthepenguin1]

Hi

I am in the process of probably spending a lot of money on GRO Certificates.

My suspect is Ann Aston....sorry my Great x4 Grandmother for calling you that 

She was born 1778 in Shropshire but then went to London, (where some of her children stayed), moved to Birmingham around 1815, was on the 1851 Census at Amblecote, (near Dudley and Wolverhampton) and was last 'seen in Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire on the 1861 census.

The problem I have is there are 11 GRO Death Certificates between 1861 and 1870. But i have already found 3 Ann Aston's alone in Witton Cemetery, Birmingham, (buried 1866, 1868 and 1870), none of which appear to have a GRO Death Certificate!!!! Now I know not all deaths may have been recorded but you must agree, 3 in 1 cemetery does not bode well!

Any comments please?

Thanks

Eric

[chempat]

Sorry, incorrect information posted.

You would think that by the age of 83 she would stay in the same place?

[dawnsh]

The GRO online ordering service gives you the opportunity of ordering without the GRO death index reference but you use the information in the death index as a starting point

Would you have better chance of getting the correct cert if you used this method? see the order form below

It takes longer but you wouldn't have to spend a load of £9.25's and end up with a pile of certs that aren't relevant. If the information doesn't match, they don't send you the cert.

Or you could try contacting the register office for Northampton to see if they have her death but has not made it's way into the GRO index

Also, the people buried in Witton cemetery may not have died in the registration district that covers Witton cemetery which is why you can't find entries.

[mazi]

there is an Ann Ashton death in kettering district dec quarter 1872 aged 90

mike

[ericthepenguin1]

Cheers everyone for your replies.

I think dawnsh has the most pragmatic way of going about things. So I have placed an order based on a death of 1863 and an age of 85.

As far as people being buried in a different area from where they died I have searched the whole of England for Ann Aston and, apart from one, (Ann Aston died in Shropshire 1870), cannot find any Ann Aston's that died in England in 1866 and 1868.

Thanks for the help, (I will report back if i have sucess).

Thanks

Eric

[chempat]

Mike,

I think that Ann Ashton shows in Kettering/Daventry in 1871, 1861, 1851 and 1841, so a different lady, unfortunately.