Death Registration

[Terryjc]

I have a person who up to 1871 was resident in Underwood in the Basford reg district.  She died in 1877 and her death is registered in Nottingham.

Does this necessarily mean that she died in Nottingham or only that her son may have registered her death at his nearest reg office.

I presume that you can go into a Nottingham office to register the death of a person in another area, but is that registration officially recorded as in Nottingham or the reg district of death, in this case Basford.

Does anyone know what the regulations are. 

[sunflower]

Hi Terry

She may have died in hospital which could have been in Nottingham which is why the death  was registered there

Just a theory.

Do you have this person's burial ?

Carol

[Terryjc]

Hi Sunflower

You are probably correct.  She is buried in Church (Rock) Cemetery, Nottingham, but I thought that might just have been the son's preference to have her buried close to him.

I note in the current regulations for notification of deaths that if you are registering a person's death at the Notts RO, and that person died outside Nottingham, then you have to fill in a separate declaration and the Notts office forwards the papers to the RO for the place of death.  Provided that the regs were the same in 1877, then she almost certainly died in Nottingham.

Terry