No family informant?

[scottishlad]

in what case would a family member not be the informant on a death record? The informant is listed as the procurator fiscal. There’s also no mother or father listed, just has a line through it. She was killed by being run over by a train if that matters. Maybe it was too gruesome to have a family member ID? I don’t know just curious. Thanks!

[Jebber]

Probably the same as in England when the Coroner is the informant after an accident or  an inquest.

[RJ_Paton]

Where a death occurs in a public place (or on private land) the Fiscal has to be informed and an investigation carried out (usually by the Police).
The nature of the injuries or of the incident itself don't have any bearing on whether the family report the death. It is probably more a case of leaving it in the hands of the officials while the inquiry goes on.
The family could have reported the death to the registrar but may have had little information as to the cause etc - if they had reported the death initially the information later from the PF would have been recorded as a correction (RCE) entry

PS there are no Inquests in Scotland as there are in England

[scottishlad]

Where a death occurs in a public place (or on private land) the Fiscal has to be informed and an investigation carried out (usually by the Police).
The nature of the injuries or of the incident itself don't have any bearing on whether the family report the death. It is probably more a case of leaving it in the hands of the officials while the inquiry goes on.
The family could have reported the death to the registrar but may have had little information as to the cause etc - if they had reported the death initially the information later from the PF would have been recorded as a correction (RCE) entry

PS there are no Inquests in Scotland as there are in England

Ahh ok very interesting. I have a couple other ancestors who had corrected entries in their death record, but didn’t know why that would be. One was accidental drowning and the other died of a fall in childhood. That makes sense now. Thank you!

[Forfarian]

PS there are no Inquests in Scotland as there are in England

and there are no coroners in Scotland either.