Hi folks, Long brick wall: An ancestor died between 1841 and 1851 census records. She has a fairly common name and lived a few miles from Norwich. I have wasted money already on sending for 2 wrong death certificates. Will I need to keep posting off or is there a way of determining the correct one? Would there definitely be one? Best Wishes, Jane in Scotland looking for Elizabeth Blake, farmer's widow, Hales and Loddon. 1790 - 1840s. www.kosmoid.net/roots

Jane Kelly There may not be a registration. Things took several years to become even mostly complete. There was no sanction for not registering a death, the registrar could have recorded it with the wrong misheard name (- the Norfolk accent defeated many a person educated elsewhere!), and sometimes a page or records could be lost between the counties and London where they were all collated. (I have an infant burial as late as 1870, but there is no corresponding birth record!) Have you checked all possible spellings and misspellings of the surname and forename? There ought to have been a burial somewhere, whether parish, private or town. If all else fails, you could find the death by this means. John Trudgill. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jane.kelly2 e-mail Sent: 21 March 2014 07:45 To: [email protected] Subject: [NFK] Death Record query Hi folks, Long brick wall: An ancestor died between 1841 and 1851 census records. She has a fairly common name and lived a few miles from Norwich. I have wasted money already on sending for 2 wrong death certificates. Will I need to keep posting off or is there a way of determining the correct one? Would there definitely be one? Best Wishes, Jane in Scotland looking for Elizabeth Blake, farmer's widow, Hales and Loddon. 1790 - 1840s. www.kosmoid.net/roots ------------------------------- 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