<< Burial no as the funeral can not be arranged until > after the death has been registered. >> This is not necessarily the case. I have a death certificate in front of me as I write this where the death took place on 8th January 1862. The man died of Appoplexy, (stroke in todays terms), there was an inquest on the 9th of Jan. 1862 but the death was not registered by the coroner until January 21st 1862. The man was my Gt. Gt. Grandfather who was a mariner sailing his collier brig between Hartlepool County Durham around the coast of England dropping off coal on the way. He had a stroke on board his ship on the 7th Jan. and was taken off the ship and into Lowestoft Infirmary Suffolk where he died the next day. I have his burial back in Hartlepool on January 12th. 1862. My ancestor part owned the ship and was the Master of her, two of his sons sailed with him, one as an apprentice aged about 14/15, the elder son as Mate. I can only assume that the sons took their father's on board the ship bck home to Hartlepool for burial. They must have been given a paper by the coroner releasing the body and authorising the burial even though the death was not registered until about 2 weeks later. The elder son would have been well abe to Master the ship back home to Hartlepool, he continued to master her on voyages for about the next ten years or so according to ther records I have for him. The only reason I can think of for there being such a delay in registering the death is that the coroner perhaps needed to speak to the eldest son about what occurred on the 7th Jan., before he could tie up any loose ends and register the death and had to wait for them to sail back to Lowestoft on their next voyage. . Either that or the coroner registered all the deaths that he had carried out inquests on during that particular month as a job lot towards the end of the month once he had finished his paperwork on them. Having issued certificates for the release of the bodies authorising the burials of them all during that period? Regards Jenny DeAngelis. Spain.

I also have a case where a death and burial occurred in August one year but the inquest & registration of death took place 8 months later Yvonne -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jenny De Angelis Sent: 09 December 2009 11:21 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WRY] WEST-RIDING Digest, Vol 4, Issue 312 << Burial no as the funeral can not be arranged until > after the death has been registered. >> This is not necessarily the case. I have a death certificate in front of me as I write this where the death took place on 8th January 1862. The man died of Appoplexy, (stroke in todays terms), there was an inquest on the 9th of Jan. 1862 but the death was not registered by the coroner until January 21st 1862. The man was my Gt. Gt. Grandfather who was a mariner sailing his collier brig between Hartlepool County Durham around the coast of England dropping off coal on the way. He had a stroke on board his ship on the 7th Jan. and was taken off the ship and into Lowestoft Infirmary Suffolk where he died the next day. I have his burial back in Hartlepool on January 12th. 1862. My ancestor part owned the ship and was the Master of her, two of his sons sailed with him, one as an apprentice aged about 14/15, the elder son as Mate. I can only assume that the sons took their father's on board the ship bck home to Hartlepool for burial. They must have been given a paper by the coroner releasing the body and authorising the burial even though the death was not registered until about 2 weeks later. The elder son would have been well abe to Master the ship back home to Hartlepool, he continued to master her on voyages for about the next ten years or so according to ther records I have for him. The only reason I can think of for there being such a delay in registering the death is that the coroner perhaps needed to speak to the eldest son about what occurred on the 7th Jan., before he could tie up any loose ends and register the death and had to wait for them to sail back to Lowestoft on their next voyage. . Either that or the coroner registered all the deaths that he had carried out inquests on during that particular month as a job lot towards the end of the month once he had finished his paperwork on them. Having issued certificates for the release of the bodies authorising the burials of them all during that period? Regards Jenny DeAngelis. Spain. Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- 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