Paul You could contact the register offices direct and ask. I found most are helpful. Although that might be because I was looking for a family in the 1870's so not sure if it would work for 1984. Rose Norton Bierton 6008 -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Chew via Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 10:32 AM To: Paul Howes ; goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] Two death registrations? Without contradicting anything said here about double death registrations, I would just add that it is sometimes worth looking beyond On Friday, 16 January 2015, Paul Howes via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > 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 <javascript:;> with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Geoff Chew geoffchew1@gmail.com _____________________________________________ 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