On 17/4/05 9:48 am, "Rosemary Meechan" <rosemarymee@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > turn up at the house of hus father - in - law in East > Central Scotland within 24 hours of his death... Where did the son live? It does not take long to cross from Edinburgh to Glasgow and Linlithgow is already west from Edinburgh : trains were frequent in those days. Doors would not be locked unless he was a wealthy man and then he would have servants in the house. A post mortem would be automatic these days for any sudden death when a doctor had not seen the deceased recently .. I think this was basically true in 1873 so no mystery there. I assume you could not read the death registration online as scotlandspeople hence the request for a print ... These extra comments are quite frequent and one has to check in the RCE for the further information .. Brilliant that GROS sent you report too. Remember death of a partner is a regular occurrence and any widow would soon remarry so as to have someone to support her or a widower so he could be looked after (our man of that era married three times the second was a widow with money and he had access to her bank account within 3 days of her first husbands death then married her by special licence within 10 days ) Was Hugh O'Brien worth a bob or two? If so there may well have been a report in the local newspaper. Robin Plenty of mouton here if you want one .. Latest is 1 hour old -- Robin and Margaret McEwen-King Lanark Scotland