Hi Mistakes do happen with the cemetery registrations, not necessarily made by the cemetery but possibly made by whoever provided the information, in my work on the Balmain Catholic cemetery I have found several DC's which give the place of burial as Rookwood, but they dont appear on any of the registers there, unless there is a funeral notice it is very difficult to find where they were buried. Patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara OConnor" <maurie777@ozemail.com.au> To: <aus-nsw@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [AUS-NSW] Strange DEATH entry > That sounds feasible, but one would expect it to be on the appropriate > cemetery index. Well, I would. > > I did a search for an 1880 Funeral Notice but no show. > > Wonder if it might have been possible for the 1880 death to have been > registered in 2005 for the first time. Perhaps a family researcher came > up > with the death details without a registration ?? Which, of course, doesn't > explain why he's not on an Index. > > Cheers, > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

And the trick is to find the Funeral Notice!

I have a modern day nightmare My frinds dad died 1963 and that is normal BUT when we went to bury another family member in the same grave we were told that we could not because Olive Gentle was in the grave not Clive....so we had to bury them elsewhere then we checked the certs and sure enough this is what we found 28969/1963 GENTLE OLIVE ANDREW CHARLES ALFRED KATIE WOLLONGONG not Clive Andrew Moral to the story always get someone not too close to the death to do the paper work because filling if forms is difficult with tears in the eyes Celia

Hi Christine, Guess the handwriting of "O"live could well be mistaken for "Cl" !!!! I can recall seeing handwritten capital "O"s which could easily have passed for a C closely followed by an "l" Cheers Ainslie.