I would have thought it could have happened in 19th C but very unlikely in 1980's. One possibility that comes to mind if it is the same person that the death was registered within a couple of days of the event in one place, then the cause of death was questioned or some other item was wrong on the certificate that it was re-registered with the correct details a short while later in another place, they just failed to cancel the first one. Can you discover where the person was living before death through directories/electoral rolls or a member of the family. Perhaps he had two families in different parts of the country! From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Howes via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 2:51 AM Subject: [G] Two death registrations? > Folks, in England and Wales, is there any way a one single death might > have been registered twice in two different districts? > > Reason I ask is that we've just discovered two people with the same > relatively unusual name who both died in the same quarter in 1984, one > in Kent and one in Lancashire. Amazingly (we think!) both death > records show exactly the same date of birth! > > Could it be one person? I've never had to register a death in > England. So I don't know the procedure, but it would seem like there > has to be some kind of control over the registration of deaths, eg, an > original certificate from a qualified physician. Ergo, it seems like > we've stumbled into a massive co-incidence. > > Just want to eliminate the unlikely . . . > TIA for any help > Paul > > > > -- > Paul Howes > www.howesfamilies.com > Researching House, Howes, Hows, Howse & Howze worldwide > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message