Double death index entry!

[Cynfran]

I have come across an instance where the GRO Death Index has two entries at the same time in 1975.... with the same index references....the same exact dates of birth....and the same first names and surnames. The only difference being different middle names. As I know that they were not conjoined twins, can anybody please tell me how this could come about?

[AntonyMMM]

It's just someone known by two names and indexed under both ...

So the entry will say something like:

John Paul Smith otherwise ( or formerly) John Peter Smith.

[Cynfran]

Thank you AntonyMMM for your quick and helpful reply. Regards, Cynfran

[Craclyn]

Could be a transcription error, in which case you would need to check with the GRO.

[Cynfran]

Hi Craclyn. I've checked the original index list and the consecutive entries are indeed there. Thanks for the thought though.

[carol8353]

A friend of mine gave the wrong DOB for his mum when she died.
He didn't think it would be a problem but of course no bank,building society etc would accept the death cert. So he had to go back and re-register her,she's indexed twice.

[Cynfran]

Ooops! Interesting though

[Melbell]

A friend of mine gave the wrong DOB for his mum when she died.
He didn't think it would be a problem but of course no bank,building society etc would accept the death cert. So he had to go back and re-register her,she's indexed twice.

Surely this would be a correction to the first registration, not a re-registration?

Melbell

[AntonyMMM]

A change of date of birth on a death entry would be a correction, not a re-registration.

A correction might lead to an entry appearing more than once in the index (depending on what the change was).

Re-registration of deaths is rare, as unlike births there are no statutory reasons for it, although it does happen occasionally.