Ah Liz, so you are back again.......... Hi
Please see my private e-mail sent to you just minutes ago
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "lizcordingley" <lizcordingley(a)blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <catley(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [CATLEY] UK GRO/PRO death info
Hi All,
I watched a program called Heir Hunters. This involves companies looking
for
heirs to money held by the government. Normally when there are no obvious
relatives.
One women who died in a home stated she was 30 years younger than she
actually was!!!!!!!!!! Consequently her death cert had the wrong DOB.
Liz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony M. Carter" <ACarter(a)health.sdu.dk>
To: <catley(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CATLEY] UK GRO/PRO death info
> Dear All,
>
> I just checked the DirectGov web site. As I suspected, the only document
> REQUIRED is a medical certificate of the cause of death. A birth
> certificate is desired "if available," although"You'll need to
tell the
> registrar" the person's date and place of birth. There is room for error
> here and I disagree that the date on the death certificate is necessarily
> reliable. Quite possibly the day and month were known but one could
> envisage many reasons why the correct year was not. I can reel my
> parents'
> birthdays off without hesitation but have to think hard about the year -
> both fall in the interval Tim mentions.
>
> No doubt you know that when starting the other way round, with the birth,
> the mother's maiden name is available and Ancestry has transcribed the
> records from 1916 making it possible to search by two surnames.
>
> Anthony
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: catley-bounces(a)rootsweb.com on behalf of Tim Cattley
> Sent: Tue 25-08-2009 10:53
> To: catley @rootsweb
> Subject: [CATLEY] UK GRO/PRO death info
>
>
>
> Chris/David/Anthony/Liz,
>
> I would like your thoughts/advice on the following please because you
> have
> probably already come across the same thing and come to some conclusion
> :-
>
> You will already know that certain batches of death records do not show
> the age of the deceased but give their full d.o.b. instead, which is a
> lot
> more helpful.
>
> However, one would expect that where a specific date of birth is given on
> the death record, that it would match up with the corresponding birth
> record for that person, however, it looks to me as if around 25% of the
> male Catley's shown do not have a corresponding birth record at all!
>
> This becomes very obvious when looking at the 1970's death PRO lists
> which
> encompass individuals born around the 1890 to 1920.
>
> When I first came across this anomaly, thought that maybe it was because
> the person was born abroad but there seem to be just too many instances
> for this to be a realistic explanation.
>
> Logic tells me to act on the death information re birth and add the
> individual to my birth list with an annotation as to how d.o.b was
> obtained (ie not from GRO birth source) so as not to confuse the
> situation.
>
> What should I do?
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
>
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