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Hi, sorry if I seem a bit dense!
Is the street given in column one a different one to where the hostel was?
Have you ascertained if there was a public assistance institution (fornerly workhouse) in that street?
Have you looked in the newspapers?

Not thinking that at all, probably me not explaining properly!
Yes the street where he died is not the same as the hostels address.
No workhouse, but a little further on was the asylum.
Like you I expected a death like this, a body on the street to have made the newspapers, but no amount of searching has found me anything yet

Aghadowey his address is a hostel for working men, which makes me think he was found dead on a street. But like you say in the cause of death box it just says cardinal arrest without the extra wording you would be looking for. He could of course have been visiting someone on that street? Maybe I need to look further at what is on that street?

I appreciate this is an old post, but the original post answers my question about the "causing the body to be buried" statement. But I have a further question, in my case it would appear my ancestor was in a working mans hostel, in my case the 'informant' on the 1939 register was a 'Relieving Officer' probably working for the Hostel. They I believe had the power to make these statements. Their main job to look after residents welfare. But my question relates to column 1 on the DC it just gives a street. Would that infer the death occurred on the street, cause of death appears to be heart attack. Death by the way was in 1938.
Thanks again

Here's the index of it on FamilySearch
23 Nov 1778, Saint Michael, Coventry, Warwick
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKS2-D3X

From MF 428986
Which is Bishops Transcripts, 1754-1806
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/316895

Thanks but it won’t let me view it. I don’t have a Familysearch account. I use FindmyPast. Although you’ve both concentrated on his marriage, which is great, I now have the church, his baptism is my main aim to see if a father was given.

There is a 'Select' marriage on Ancestry - saying the marriage was at St. Michael, Coventry.

Hi Pennines, not sure I know what ‘select’ means, maybe an ancestry term? But thanks for the St. Michael info. Hopefully someone has access to their records here.