Informant

[Robert_Marr]

Hi,

Can anyone please tell me if its the informant recorded on a death record who gives all the details relating to the deceased?

The reason I ask is I am looking at a death record of a man named Thomas in 1855. Being of this year there is a lot of information but the informant is a son-in-law and some of it looks incorrect. The one that is bothering me is his mother. to my knowledge by the time he died his wife and parents had already passed away. On the record rightly deceased is written below his father and wife but not mother which I find strange. There is a site that has a photo of the headstone for his mother reported as 1829 but I have not seen it yet. So I am wondering if the information is likely to be incorrect- if the details are provided by the son-in-law then he may not of have known either way.

Thanks

[sancti]

That is correct

The lack of deceased about his mother may have been a clerical error

[Robert_Marr]

Thanks sancti. That saves me a lot of tail chasing.

Added: Found out since the headstone date of 1827 (actually 1829) looks to have been a purchase rather than a death as it read "Property of Hugh Marr and Janet Clark and their heirs". That would explain the mix up.