I can't find the GRO record for a dead'un

[Zaphod99]

We found the following death record on FreeBMD but we can't find the corresponding entry on GRO.

Deaths Dec 1903, Parker    Ada    38    Easington       10a       303

https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=%2FMn2DMcm%2BIXyHT6l6j0hlA&scan=1

We are quite interested in obtaining the death certificate, or at least an image, for £2.50, as according to family lore this person died an unusual death. Why can't we find her on the GRO records?  Could she just be wrongly spelled?

Previously she was (born) Ada Greenfield, Easington, 1864, then married to a pork butcher, Robert William Linton in Sunderland in 1886.  Robert died in 1901 and Ada LINTON quickly remarried to George Shevlin Parker, another butcher, in Sunderland in June 1901.

https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=Bz43eTT37an90KEyiS%2BaOw&scan=1

Thanks

Zaph

[Ashtone]

Report on her death in the Durham County Advertiser, 9 October 1903. Poisoning was cause of death.
"Husband and Wife Commit Suicide". Inquest was held. Verdict was she "was temporarily deranged through excess of alcohol".

[Zaphod99]

That's in keeping with legend, although laudanum was mentioned.  Are you allowed to post the clipping, please?

Would this explain the missing record?  We've never found out anything about G Parker's death.

Mrs Zaph.

[Ashtone]

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[Ashtone]

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[BumbleB]

There's obviously more than one account - FindMyPast have The Durham Chronicle - Friday, 9 October 1903 - inquest on death of Ada Parker aged 38, widow of the late G Parker, master butcher of Seaham Harbour.

[Tickettyboo]

If you think an entry is missing in the online index you can report it. Details of how are here:

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_data_quality_error_reporting.asp

Give a reason why you think its missing e.g.
its in the old printed index and specify year quarter district vol and page number along with her name and age at death.

Its not instant as involves a human checking it out  but they will look and add in the entry if they agree.
You can check now and then to see if its been dealt with.

Boo

[AntonyMMM]

First thing to do is to check other entries on the same page and see if they appear in the GRO index.

If they do, then look for a spelling variation/mistranscription

If not, it tells you that the page probably got missed  somehow in the digitisation / transcription process, and you won't find it.

[Zaphod99]

Thank you all for all of this.  I'm quite amazed.  I will follow the advice about reporting. 

Can I ask for further help with the suicide report on her first husband, Robert William Linton, mentioned, about HIS suicide, about Spring 1901, please?

Zaph (And Mrs)