2 cousins deaths have same reference numbers?

[rosie99]

Samuel was buried at Marston Moretaine 10 January 1860
John was buried at Marston Moretaine 22 January 1860

[Mowsehowse]

Really need to know the causes of deaths.

[rosie99]

Really need to know the causes of deaths.

I can't see an online newspaper report so it may have to be the death certificates. 

[polidor]

Am keen to find out if their deaths so close to each other was coincidence or not so attempted to send for a D cert. I haven't used the GRO for a while and find i now need an activation code.

I received one by email and the GRO rejected it ! I imagine i may get sent another one.
How long has this been part of the system, does anyone know?  poli.

[Andrew Tarr]

But doesn't the register suggest the deaths were close together?

Well, yes - in the same quarter and the same registration district, which will be several square miles.  The burial dates given above were 12 days apart, which suggests to me a local epidemic of some sort.

[rosie99]

Well, yes - in the same quarter and the same registration district, which will be several square miles.  The burial dates given above were 12 days apart, which suggests to me a local epidemic of some sort.

If it was a local epidemic then I would have thought there would have been probably a couple of pages between them given the burial dates. 

I would be ordering one to see what it says before ordering the second in case the first solves the mystery.

[Mowsehowse]

Me too.

Perhaps a small epidemic, as an interesting accident probably would have been reported in the local paper.

[Andrew Tarr]

If it was a local epidemic then I would have thought there would have been probably a couple of pages between them given the burial dates.

That will depend on how the original register was compiled, just as the marriage registers we see are not the very first record, but usually fair copies maybe written up weekly or on some regular basis.  I don't think every reported death would be entered at the moment it came in?  That being so, each batch may be entered alphabetically, so these cousins would naturally appear together.

[polidor]

I have just sent for a D cert for John Copperwheat. Will let you know what it says.

poli.