Hello Mary and Tammy Just to say that there are many gaps in Scottish death records before statutory registration was introduced in 1855. The Scotlands People website says this about death and burial records: ''Of all the OPR records, those of deaths and/or burials are acknowledged to be the most sparsely kept. Since there was no requirement to record these, a great many parishes simply did not bother and of those that did, many have not survived. Often the only record that a death has taken place will be implied in the payment of a fee to the parish for the hire of the mortcloth or pall which was draped over the coffin or the body itself for the funeral''. This also suggests that any records would relate to the parish of burial. Rhoda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Guler" <mlmguler@yahoo.com> To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Gilmerton: Robert Mitchell Hi, Just to try to explore possibilities further, IF our Robert Mitchell, who lived in Gilmerton, traveled for business as a cattle broker, and IF he died in another area of Scotland, might we find the death record somewhere other than in the Midlothian parishes? Would they have carried his remains back to Liberton parish for burial, and therefore this is the only place we would find the records?