Which Quarter ?

[KathyM]

I have a lot of credits on this site....and don't mind doing the occasional search for people !


I couldn't find your Elijah Burrows on freebmd......but on the 1837 gro index...when I checked it out....the correct ref is :

 BURROWS  Elijah   Sept 1842  Portsea Island  7  95

 (there is no Elijah listed in the Dec quarter)

 Incidentally, as I was searching, I accidently searched births instead of deaths the first time....and found this one, which may belong to you !

  BURROWS  Eliza  June 1842  Portsea Island  22  144

[corinne]

Its easy to assume a name is uncommon, but remember that families often used the same first names across several families of cousins.  Elijah may not be a common name now, but it would be entirely possible to have two or three vaguely related individuals with that name.  I have one group of three males with the same names born within two years of each other.  Of course the other possibility is that two relatives registered the death without consulting each other, one at the end of one quarter and one at the beginning of the next. 

[KathyM]

But it is MORE likely that it is transcribed wrongly !  I can't tell you how many times I have found the original record, on checking, to be different from the transcription !

[Sylviaann]

Thanks Kathy I will send for that one.

Incidently I just looked again on Freebmd and he is now down 3 times for differnet quarters in 1842.  June and December quarter have the same reference.  The September quarter is in dark blue.  Looks as if someone is having fun on Freebmd.  I know it is only a guide and I would look any up before sending for the cert but this is peculiar.  I wonder if someone has said something and it has been altered wrongly.

Sylviaann