On Thu, 30 May 2013 11:11:47 +0100, Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> wrote: >On 29/05/2013 07:48, Peter Goodey wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 21:46 +0100, Roger Mills wrote: >>> Pity they didn't record the age at >>> death in those days! >> >> Yes they did! >> >> It just didn't start appearing in the index until 1866. >> > >Fair enough. But the effect is the same unless you purchase a death >certificate. > Not in areas such as e.g. Cheshire where access has been allowed to produce indexes including age, sub-district and entry number for BMDs.