Hi Josephine, >From what you have told me now and earlier, it looks like roughly a week was a common span. It might be as close as I get until I venture into trying to possibly obtain death certificates. I wouldn't need that many. Thanks! Cindy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josephine Jeremiah Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 9:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [B&S] Question on calculating actual death dates from burial records On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:23:25 +0100, Baum, Cindy, OPM USA <[email protected]> wrote: > I have burial dates for some ancestors in Bitton and nearby parishes. > However, these dates obviously do not tell me when the person actually > died. Was there any "typical" time between death and burial in the > late 1700s to mid-1800s? Hi Cindy, I've had a look at my notes for my Bitton and neighbourhood ancestors and have found that I don't have both death certificate and burial to compare dates on any of them. Mostly I have the burials of these ancestors, but I do have some of their death certificates. This is a reminder for me to chase up some of the burials of the ancestors for whom I have death certificates. I have both death date and burial date for an ancestor who died in Marshfield, Gloucestershire, which is not far from Bitton. My 4x great grandmother, Keziah LILES (nee HITCHINGS)died on 5th. December 1848 and was buried on 12th. December 1848 at Marshfield. Josephine ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________