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According to his family’s gravestone, William Weatherson died on 23 June 1840 aged 23, and was later buried on 26 June. However I can’t find a matching death record on GRO or FreeBMD in that time period.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193206694/william-wetherson
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG5X-Y6HW?lang=en&cid=fs_copy
Can anyone see any possible matches? Thank you.
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I think that perhaps someone mistranscribed the date of death for William on the headstone :-\
FreeBMD show a death in Rothbury Registration District -
William Rothbury - June quarter 1848 - Volume 25, page 301
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I think that perhaps someone has misread the date of death for William on the headstone :-\
FreeBMD show a death in Rothbury Registration District -
William Rothbury - June quarter 1848 - Volume 25, page 301
That can’t be the right person - he was 74 years old.
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Strange :-X
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Perhaps he died elsewhere so won’t appear on our BMD index.
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The age adds up correctly, according to baptism he was born 22 September 1816 which would make him 23 in 1840.
Can’t put past the potential for error of course though.
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Perhaps he died elsewhere so won’t appear on our BMD index.
Good point!
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Perhaps he died elsewhere so won’t appear on our BMD index.
Good point!
According to the gravestone he died on the 23rd June and according to Family Search he was buried at Rothbury on 26th June, which doesn't give much time from him to be transported back home, unless he died in Scotland.
The other possibility is that the death simply wasn't registered. It did happen from time to time.
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FreeBMD has a very low number of death registrations in Rothbury RD in June quarter 1840, only 7.
Unfortunately there are no BTs after 1837 for images, but FamilySearch index these burials at Rothbury from the parish registers
Robert Nesbit, 3 May 1840, age 4
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC7-CMNZ
James Nesbit, 5 May 1840, age 2
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC7-CMN8
Anne Dunn,6 May 1840, age 29
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG5X-Y6HQ
All three were registered somewhat later, in the September quarter, Rothbury, vol 25, page 225
NESBIT, ROBERT
Age at Death (in years): 4
GRO Reference: 1840 S Quarter in ROTHBURY UNION Volume 24 Page 225
NESBIT, JAMES
Age at Death (in years): 2
GRO Reference: 1840 S Quarter in ROTHBURY UNION Volume 24 Page 225
DUNN, ANN
Age at Death (in years): 29
GRO Reference: 1840 S Quarter in ROTHBURY UNION Volume 24 Page 225
Hope those burial dates are right!
Because then there is
Thomas Hume, buried 22 May 1840, age 7
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG5X-Y6H7
Registered in the December quarter?
HUME, THOMAS
Age at Death (in years): 7
GRO Reference: 1840 D Quarter in ROTHBURY UNION Volume 25 Page 279
Not that it helps with William Weatherson :(
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All three were registered somewhat later, in the September quarter, Rothbury, vol 25, page 225
Well it should be volume 25, but the new GRO index says volume 24. Which is wrong.
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All three were registered somewhat later, in the September quarter, Rothbury, vol 25, page 225
Well it should be volume 25, but the new GRO index says volume 24. Which is wrong.
Thank you for comparing burials to the registrations, that gives some sort of scope.
I think my next idea is looking at the actual burial register to see what it says for his abode. As far as I can tell those only go up to 1831 on FreeREG and 1837 on DRO :-\ and the ones on familysearch are only indexes.
Was able to get the full burials for his siblings though, so that’s a bonus
26 May 1832 Jane Witherston, of Harehaugh, age: 1 & 1/2
19 Sep 1837 James Weatherstone, of Harehaugh, age: 19, committed suicide by hanging himself. Verdict of the Jury “Temporary mental derangement”. Died at Newtown.
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The different surname spellings don’t help do they.
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Definitely not ::)
My g-gmother had the middle name Weatherson (after this branch of the family) and it was spelled wrong all the time.