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Offline mutchall

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Fleet Street, Birmingham (Burial)
« on: Thursday 10 November 16 23:54 GMT (UK) »
The Aris' Birmingham Gazette of 25 April 1825 reported the death of Mr William Mitchell on the 14th April at Fleetstreet, aged 59. There's isn't a corresponding death notice for him in the Birmingham Journal like there are for some of the others in the Gazette of the same date. A possible widow marries Joseph Willday.

If it’s the person I think it is then a nephew was buried 31 January 1822 at Saint Paul's Chapel, Birmingham. But neither Saint Paul's nor the other Birmingham churches seem to furnish a burial for this William Mitchell. Searching ancestry, findmypast (Quakers, non-conformists) and the NBI doesn't turn up a likely candidate.

I've identified Deritend, Saint John the Baptist and Asthed, Saint James the Less as having burial registers missing from the Ancestry collection. Would anyone having access to either those two registers, transcripts of the Roman Catholic registers or transcripts of the Memorial Inscriptions mind having a look for this William Mitchell (also spelt Michell, Muchall, Mutchall)?

Secondly, would anyone know of any non-conformist records for Birmingham that wouldn't be held at the National Archives, are therefore not online, and that cover the period concerned?

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Re: Fleet Street, Birmingham (Burial)
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 07 January 17 18:05 GMT (UK) »
Hello,

Not all Church burials are online nor listed on NBI.  At that time  St John's and St James the Less were in the Parish of Aston, rather than Birmingham.
Fleet Street is in  Birmingham.
Birmingham Archives in Birmingham Library - Broad Street have burials for Birmingham and Aston.

Birmingham Inner City Churches open at that time are:-

St George's Hockley, Birmingham opened 1819
Christchurch in New Street opened 1805- 1899
St Philips Church ( now a Cathedral )  Colmore Row.
St Peters -Dale End .opened 1824
St Peters Church , Spring Hill  did not open until 1827
St Bartholomew - Masshouse Lane.
St Martins in The Bull Ring ( Birmingham's Mother Church )
St Chads - Catholic Church.

Check original records for St Pauls, Hockley , Birmingham. Possible William's  name may have been missed out in modern day transcriptions.