Sometimes on some of the films you will see a remark "John Smith for mort cloth.5"......which means John Smith rented the mort cloth to lay on the body or coffin for someone's trip (family member likely) to the cemy. They could also rent the bell and have it rung......it's not too often, but some of the parishes recorded this info as it was additional income for them. Of course not everyone could afford it either. Goldie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve & Alison Hill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [MORAY] Death Certificate > Hi Goldie & Kirsteen > > Thank you both for your the help. I tried the Libindex and no luck there. > On the 1851 census she was living at the Mill of Garmouth, Her name is > Helen ELLIS (ROBERTSON) b abt 1790 Duffus, Moray. One of her sons was > married in 1856 and it stated that she was deceased. I would like to find > out who her parents are and have found purchasing birth certificates for > that erra I never seem to get a lot of information off them so I thought I > would go with a death instead. Dipped out there too lol!! > Please excuse my ignorance but what is Mort cloth/bell rentals? > > Thanks. > Alison > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Goldie & Lido Doratti" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:03 PM > Subject: Re: [MORAY] Death Certificate > > >> You won't get it.......where was she when she died?.......you need the >> film >> for that area, and YOU might get lucky and find some mort cloth/bell >> rentals >> on it.....which would give you the date of the rental. It's been my >> experience they weren't held long, so likely two days back would be the >> ABT >> time of death. >> Would be nice if we could ask for what isn't there, lots of us would jump >> on >> the wagon!! BEFORE 1855 is not a possibility for a cert., after would be >> more probable. Go with the flow and accept the '51 census and run with >> that, or a cert for one of her children AFTER '55. Good luck.Goldie >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message