Referring back to Jenny's original enquiry of a death. Referring to Parish Registers and the recomendation to look at the LDS PR's: Just a reminder that the parish registers are records of baptisms, marriages and burials. Looking at a burial entry in a parish register will not give you the same as what is on a death certificate. A parish register burial entry usually will give you the name of the deceased, age at death , date of burial, possibly address but not always. Then of course the official conducting the burial/service. Sometimes the cause of death if unusual. Remember the information is only as good as the giver of the information. Also, just because the parish register has a burial entry at a particular church it didn't mean that the burial was at that church, unless of course the family had a "vault/family plot". As local church burial grounds began to fill "public" cemeteries were established. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Firebird" <sparrer@gmail.com> To: <Essex-UK@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:05 AM Subject: Re: [Ess] REGISTER ENTRIES & CERTIFICATES [wasRe: Birth BaptismMarriage William Hyde KNAPP] > Francis Payne wrote: >> Do you know which offices do the same as GRO, >> so you do get to see the actual signatures ? > > All the register offices can produce copies of the marriage certs with > the actual signatures, although there are some register offices now > which are refusing to issue "historical" certificates, ie those before > 1900. > > You can also get copies of the marriage entries from the church > registers which would be (or should be) held at the record office but > that would cost considerably more usually than getting a copy from the > GRO. (Note: a register office is not the same thing as a record office.) > > If you are near an LDS FHC, then you can hire the parish films through > them and see the signatures for yourself that way. That would be > cheaper (transport costs excluded) than getting a GRO cert :)) You > can usually make a photocopy, digital copy or download the image from > the film. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 24 Aug 2008, at 13:19, podnsod wrote: > > Also, just because the parish register has a burial entry at a > particular > church it didn't mean that the burial was at that church, unless of > course > the family had a "vault/family plot". As local church burial > grounds began > to fill "public" cemeteries were established. > > No. Parish Burial registers will only contain entries of people ( or ashes) buried in the churchyard. If a funeral service is held at a church followed by burial in a public cemetery, then the funeral service will be noted in the service register, but the burial will be noted in the burial register of the cemetery - quite separate from the church's one. Anne