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Missing death Jemima Johnson
« on: Sunday 06 February 22 13:32 GMT (UK) »
I have been unable to find either civil or parish registration of the death of Jemima Johnson born 1799 at Bures Hamlet.  She lived most of her life in Alphamstone and Lamarsh, a pauper in her old age.  Found in Alphamstone on the 1871 census and probably found there on the 1881 census mis-recorded as 'Jeremiah'.  A search from 1871 onwards in Essex and Suffolk (in case she went to the workhouse at Sudbury) have failed to find her death.  Parish registers at Alphamstone and Lamarsh searched without success.
Does anyone have any idea why I can't find her?  Is it possible for an elderly pauper in a rural village to go unrecorded either by the church or in civil registration?

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Re: Missing death Jemima Johnson
« Reply #1 on: Monday 07 February 22 16:19 GMT (UK) »
Have you looked on the General Register Office for her death?

You can search for variations of surname on there in case she has been mis transcribed.

Was she a widow or a single woman? 
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Re: Missing death Jemima Johnson
« Reply #2 on: Monday 07 February 22 16:31 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: RosieG88 on Sunday 06 February 22 13:32 GMT (UK)
probably found there on the 1881 census mis-recorded as 'Jeremiah'. 

Could you please give the reference number for that entry
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Re: Missing death Jemima Johnson
« Reply #3 on: Monday 07 February 22 16:38 GMT (UK) »
RG11/1826 folio 26, page 7.

Jeremiah said to be aged 85, widower and born Bures, with grand-daughter Agnes.  There is (on Ancestry) a faint insert in the final column - difficult to decipher!
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Re: Missing death Jemima Johnson
« Reply #4 on: Monday 07 February 22 16:40 GMT (UK) »
FindMyPast has clearer image - Transferred to Alphramstone - for both entries.

Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
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Re: Missing death Jemima Johnson
« Reply #5 on: Monday 07 February 22 16:45 GMT (UK) »
Thank you BumbleB  :)

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Re: Missing death Jemima Johnson
« Reply #6 on: Friday 11 February 22 13:54 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Rosie99 and BumbleB.  Looking again, and apologies, I think I was wrong in assuming that Jeremiah Johnson 1881 census is a misrecording of Jemima.  The reference to transfer to Alphamstone may be because part of Lamarsh was moved to Alphamstone in 1884, including the area of the Rectory where Jemima Johnson lived.

I have searched the GRO indexes from 1871 onwards and variant spellings without success.
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