My 3xg.grandparents JOHN JUDSON, born 1795, and HANNAH née SUTTON, born 1795, of Nantwich do not appear in the 1841 census. The last record I can find of them was in 1834 when their daughter MARY ANN died and they seem to be alive. In 1841 their sons HENRY, born 1819, and JOHN, born 1828, were lodgers in Wall Lane, Nantwich, with WILLIAM FARMER. I can find no record of the deaths of my 3xg.parents and wonder if they died in the typhus epidemic of 1840. There were 56 cases of typhoid in the workhouse at the time and some deaths were recorded in the PR. Is it possible that some deaths would escape registration, I wonder? I would be glad of comments. DON TOMKINSON

Hmmm - it's not *supposed* to happen as you are supposed to provide a certificate to the undertaker, etc., and without that, the priest is not supposed to bury someone. Having said that I have an idea that I have examples where the registration date is after the burial. Adrian On 16/09/2014 15:46, Don Tomkinson via wrote: > ... Is it possible that some deaths would escape registration, I wonder? > ... > >

>From 1837 until 1874 it was the responsibility of the Registrar to obtain the information and he was paid by his success. There was no penalty for failing to register a birth or death and it is believed that possibly a third of these early registrations are missing. The 1874 Births and Deaths Registration Act made registration compulsory and the onus of registering a birth passed to the parents with a £2 fine if the fine was not registered within 42 days. The responsibility for reporting a death was placed on a relative of the deceased. The registration had to be supported by a certificate signed by a doctor and the death had to be registered within 5 days. It wasn't until 1926 that a registrar's certificate or coroner's order had to be produced before a burial could take place. Of course, the Judsons could have died before Civil Registration commenced in July 1837. Joy ----Original message---- >From : cheshire@rootsweb.com Date : 16/09/2014 - 20:38 (GMTST) To : CHESHIRE-L@rootsweb.com Subject : Re: [CHS] JUDSONS'S DEATHS Hmmm - it's not *supposed* to happen as you are supposed to provide a certificate to the undertaker, etc., and without that, the priest is not supposed to bury someone. Having said that I have an idea that I have examples where the registration date is after the burial. Adrian On 16/09/2014 15:46, Don Tomkinson via wrote: > ... Is it possible that some deaths would escape registration, I wonder? > ... > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message