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Offline Janet Waterhouse

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Asterisk in burial register margin
« on: Saturday 10 August 24 06:38 BST (UK) »
Good morning,

I have come across an asterisk shown in the burial register margin against the name of the deceased.  Example attached.

Do you know the reason for this.

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Janet

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Re: Asterisk in burial register margin
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 10 August 24 07:07 BST (UK) »
I don't know the reason, but * appears against the majority of burials over the 4 pages available to view on Ancestry.

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Re: Asterisk in burial register margin
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 10 August 24 10:12 BST (UK) »
Sometimes pauper burials (paid for by the parish) are annotated - often with a "P", but might be an asterisk. But it could be some special code, known only to the vicar and we might never find out. Is the first page of that particular book viewable? Might have an explanation there
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
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Re: Asterisk in burial register margin
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 10 August 24 10:17 BST (UK) »
I can't see anything.
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
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Re: Asterisk in burial register margin
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 10 August 24 10:28 BST (UK) »
Could it signify a burial in an Unconsecrated area of the graveyard?

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Re: Asterisk in burial register margin
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 10 August 24 12:50 BST (UK) »
I have seen burials marked in various ways signifying death as a result of an outbreak of a particular disease. Hard to tell really, maybe the burial of non-conformists or non church goers could be another reason. Ray

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Re: Asterisk in burial register margin
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 10 August 24 13:54 BST (UK) »
Looking at the snip,I thought it might be infants/children as the 2 with the asterisks were youngsters. However looking at the original , the next page shows more or less a whole column of them
Apparently there was a cholera epidemic in UK which started in 1848 and lasted 2 years. so maybe....

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Re: Asterisk in burial register margin
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 10 August 24 13:58 BST (UK) »
Looking again at the parish register - certainly in that year, 1849, a lot of the entries had the cause of death noted AND most of the * entries had died from "Asiatic Cholera". 


The spring of 1849 began with another round of cholera explosions. France and Italy were infected, as were Algeria and Tunisia in North Africa. England suffered a virulent onslaught; at its height, the epidemic claimed some 1,000 lives a day.

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Re: Asterisk in burial register margin
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 13 August 24 08:22 BST (UK) »
Good morning,

thank you to all for your suggestions.

I can now reveal the siginficance of the asterisk against certain entries in the burial register, it indicates the presence of a headstone, kerb etc. 

When a headstone was erected at a later date the earlier entry in the burial register was not updated.

Regards,

Janet
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