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Title: No burial record - but there is a Will
Post by: chopendoz on Monday 17 June 13 04:10 BST (UK)

While researching some wills I came across the following ...

Under appendix A of baps/burials 1653 -1723 (BHS publication) is a list of people..
*Wills of Banbury inhabitants for whom no entry occurs in the burial registers*
Will 1718 - POTTER Daniel, innholder of the Corporation of Banbury. PCB 49/2/12

How can there be a Will, but no burial record?

Title: Re: No burial record - but there is a Will
Post by: Billyblue on Monday 17 June 13 04:17 BST (UK)

registration of each event under a different jurisdiction, legally?

OR
It may just mean there is no entry in the burial register for Banbury, not no entry in the burial register for the whole country / world, i.e. may have lived in Banbury but died and buried elsewhere.

Dawn M

Title: Re: No burial record - but there is a Will
Post by: Alexander. on Monday 17 June 13 06:06 BST (UK)

There was not necessarily any relationship between a will and burial record. However, it was incumbent upon the executor of a will to arrange the burial of the deceased. Often a testator would specify in his will where and how he would like to be buried.

There are several explanations, the most likely of which Dawn has mentioned - that he was simply buried elsewhere. Alternatively, the burial may have been inadvertently omitted from the register, the burial register may have been damaged or lost since the burial occured, or there may have been circumstances which prevented him from being buried in the churchyard.

Reading the will (and checking when/if/how it was proved) may shed some light on the mystery.

Alexander