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Title: Death in Chile - translation please
Post by: familydar on Tuesday 28 January 25 15:18 GMT (UK)
Ancestry has a copy of the death register entry for a man they've indexed as Guillermo Tomas Whichelow y Walker, here is a link to the image:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/9812/records/20617157

It's number 1569, the bottom one on the LH page.  Can someone translate it for me please?

Many thanks
Jane :-)
Title: Re: Death in Chile - translation please
Post by: Sam Swift on Tuesday 28 January 25 19:08 GMT (UK)
Columm 1
26 NOV
(no year stated)

Column 2
Name whichelow and Walker William Thomas
Sex : Male
Nationality: English
Age: twenty eight years
Profession: empleado can mean employee or some sort of clerk / office worker
State: Married to Jane Morrison Murray
Address Jose Joaquin Percy (un-numbered)
Name of parents:
Father: George Thomas Whichelow
Mother: Elisa Walker


3rd column
Date: 26th Nov 1900
At 2 in the morning
Place: in his home
Cause: Acute peritonitis
Cemetery : ?Numero uno ?? which is  number one or ? Munion one - not sure if it's a name

4th column
Name:William Torres ?? (not sure of name)
Age: 38 years
Profession : employee / clerk
Address: ? 39
Testifier to identity: known to the official ?
Confirmation of Death:by document 837

Last column – no comments
Title: Re: Death in Chile - translation please
Post by: familydar on Tuesday 28 January 25 19:53 GMT (UK)
Thank you Sam  :)

Jane :-)
Title: Re: Death in Chile - translation please
Post by: Tickettyboo on Wednesday 29 January 25 09:46 GMT (UK)
Family Search list these cemeteries in Iquique:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Iquique,_Iquique,_Chile_Genealogy#Cemeteries

and the informant also seems to have signed in the final col.
Possibly Wm H Rookes ? as he signed Wm H, rather than the Spanish version of G[uillermo] I assume his native language was English - not necessarily British though.

there is a birth reg for a William Henry Rookes  Q4 1862, Axminster 5b 17 who would 'fit' with his age of 38 on the document - though that could take a fair bit of checking to see if he also was in Chile in 1900.

Boo