To register a death, the informant has to be "qualified" in a certain way for them to be legally allowed to give the information to the registrar. GRO has a list of ways in which this can happen - it includes relatives, any person present at the death, a person in charge of the premises where a death takes place and various others. A "person causing the body to be buried/cremated" is way down the list, and would usually indicate (although not always) that there was no one more qualified to do the job. Examples of such a registration could be where a solicitor is dealing with the affairs of a person with no close relatives, or maybe a hospital or local authority person doing the same. Sounds like this could the case in your example. Another possibility is a co-habiting partner - if they do not qualify by being present at the death they may only be legally allowed to register by being shown under this category (because they are not legally related to the deceased). That still happens quite often today.... often to the great distress of the partner, who may have lived with the deceased for many years. Antony -----Original Message----- From: eng-liverpool-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-liverpool-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Maria Haines Sent: 05 April 2014 11:17 To: eng-liverpool@rootsweb.com Subject: [ENG-LIV] 'causing the body to be buried' Hello again Liverpool listers, I have just received a death certificate from 1963 on which the 'description' of the informant is 'causing the body to be buried'. I've never seen that as a description before and wondered whether anybody could shed any light on it? The person concerned died in hospital, definitely out of contact with many of her family and possibly out of contact with any relative. A notice was subsequently issued by the Treasury appealing for relatives in relation to her (small) estate. So does this mean that the informant was some official person who authorised the burial in the absence of any relatives? The name and address of the informant, in case anyone recognises it, was H.E. Falcon, 35, Greasby Road, Upton, Wirral. No quaifications or any oter description of who M/s Falcon was, other than those words 'causing the body to be buried'. It's a different name both from that of the doctor who certified the cause of death and that of the (deputy) registrar who registered it. Help, please, from anyone who knows about such things! Maria ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Admin Message - List guidelines: http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm The list admin can be contacted at Eng-Liverpool-admin@rootsweb.com Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No fees! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LIVERPOOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message