From: "bernice pegler" <[email protected]> > Hi Cindy > The burial registers will tell you the burial date but if you can > find the actual tombstone then the death date will be carved on it rather > than the burial date. I would suggest the burial date would have been within > a week of the death in those days. > Bernice > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Baum, Cindy, OPM USA" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:23 AM > Subject: [B&S] Question on calculating actual death dates from > burial > records > > > > Hi, Listers, > > > > 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? < < I would have thought a week was about right because it wouldn't have been very healthy to keep corpses longer than that in those days! However, do be careful about assuming dates on tombstones to be correct. I have found they are sometimes wrong, even occasionally giving a wrong year because they have been added at a later date than the actual burial. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Thanks, Roy. Good point. I know, my great-grandmother's birth year here in the States is wrong and they even have her husband's middle initial incorrect on the same marker. If someone other than me were to look, they wouldn't even think they were the right people! I hope that the person who paid for the stone got a reduction... At least I can get an idea if I find them somewhere online. Cindy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 10:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [B&S] Question on calculating actual death dates from burial records From: "bernice pegler" <[email protected]> > Hi Cindy > The burial registers will tell you the burial date but if you can find > the actual tombstone then the death date will be carved on it rather > than the burial date. I would suggest the burial date would have been > within a week of the death in those days. > Bernice > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Baum, Cindy, OPM USA" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:23 AM > Subject: [B&S] Question on calculating actual death dates from burial > records > > > > Hi, Listers, > > > > 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? < < I would have thought a week was about right because it wouldn't have been very healthy to keep corpses longer than that in those days! However, do be careful about assuming dates on tombstones to be correct. I have found they are sometimes wrong, even occasionally giving a wrong year because they have been added at a later date than the actual burial. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE ------------------------------- 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 ______________________________________________________________________