Possible registration district changes

[Ellenmai]

Does anyone know if the registration district for Derbighshire changed to Stoke on Trent Staffordshire sometime after 1939? I have the Evill family living in Bolsover Derbighshire with all registrations in Derbighshire up to 1939 then I have the family registrations for two deaths 1956 & 1968 registered in Stoke on Trent. As far as I know the family didn't move home.

[BumbleB]

According to FreeBMD the only area covered by Stoke on Trent Registration District is Stoke on Trent.

Bolsover, Derbyshire came under the Chesterfield Registration District until 1974

[Ellenmai]

Thanks BumbleB, They must have moved then.

[CarolA3]

A death is registered in the district where it occurs, regardless of the person's home address.

It's entirely possible that your family members were patients in a hospital away from home, or they could have died in accidents while on holiday.  You will find the exact place of death on the death certificate along with the usual home address (if different).

(In my own family, I couldn't find my great-great-grandfather's death registration.  He'd lived all his life in Oxfordshire, but the only possible death record was in London so I took a punt on it.  The cert confirmed that he died at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington while staying nearby with his recently widowed son-in-law.)

Carol

[JenB]

Thanks BumbleB, They must have moved then.

As Carol has explained, you shouldn’t assume they had moved house.

My fathers home was in Norfolk. But he died while he was staying with me, so his death was registered in Peterborough district.

[Gadget]

I think the error is also the confusion of Derbyshire and Denbighshire in transcription. Given that many of my ancestors are from Denbighshire, I've noticed that this is a very common mistake by transcribers.

* as far as I'm aware Bolsover has always been in Derbyshire - I am reminded of Dennis Skinner each time I read it!!

[BumbleB]

BUT if, using FreeBMD, you specify a surname of EVILL and the county as Denbighshire, there are only two registrations.  However, if you specify the same surname and choose Derbyshire there are a large number - the majority in Chesterfield RD and Bolsover is located within that RD.

[Comberton]

Is this the 1968 death?

[BumbleB]

If that is the relevant newspaper cutting then Shelton is, according to Google Maps, located in Stoke on Trent, so SoT Registration District is correct.

PLUS

It is more than possible that Annie V Evill had moved house - 1939 register shows her as resident in Duckmanton, Staveley, Derbyshire.