Different death dates, opinions please.

[suzard]

We have come across a wrong date of death on a grave in a Nottingham cemetery
We had birth, marriage, death certs of the person -yet the date of death was 10 years out ! It was a family grave, so the headstone was there before the date this person died -his name was just added to the stone.

looking at the burial record -the burial took place 3 days after the death was registered!!!!
its not making things easy for future family historians!!!

I think it would be a wise move to look at the burial records

Suz

[aghadowey]

Several years ago I was in the house of a family connected to mine by marriage. In the room were a man, his wife, brother, sister and several children. As the man's mother had been married to my grandfather's uncle I asked when she died (I didn't have a date in my records as she had remarried after uncle died) and I've never seen such panic. First they could hardly remember if woman or 2nd husband had died first, children were sent to look under stairs for date house was built once they decided mother had died before they moved into house and on it went. Never did get a date from them but they all agreed they should put up a headstone some day!