Death of James Crombie Kilpatrick

[suevize]

Thanks Muss and JM

have looked at all these leads and they are not correct.

Name is consistently recorded as James Crombie Kilpatrick, occupation consistently recorded as engineer (on all the certificates and newspaper articles I have found). Parents were James Kilpatrick and Mary Petrie; baptised 1820 in Inveresk, Midlothian Scotland. Mary died in in1822 at the home of John Crombie (her brother in law) in Edinburgh after a long illness.

Known addresses:
1820 Inveresk with Musselburgh, Midlothan
1822 House of John Crombie Canongate Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
1841 not located in England or Scotland census
1844 29 Chester Street, Heston(?) Manchester, Lancs
1846 Chorlton, Lancs
1847 Back Gray Street, Manchester, Lancs
1850 Cholton, Lancs
1853 Adelaide (don't have this original certificate this quoted from a SAGHS index)
1855 Sandridge (address not specified)
1865 Sandridge (residential addresses of parties not provided)
1892 Erane? Street Port Melbourne

This one is a real mystery to me. Everything points to James dying between 1855-1865 in Sandridge but I cannot find anything. I am not sure of his employment, apart from the consistent recording of engineer as his occupation. So maybe he travelled?

Sue

[majm]

Hi there,

It is entirely possible that the registration of his death failed to reach the BDM authorities, particularly if it occurred during the Gold Rushes of the 1860s.   I know that at least in NSW, the deputy registrars were meant to send quarterly summaries to the Sydney HO, and that these were usually despatched by Royal Mail.   And the Royal Mail went by Coach along with the Gold ! and errr..... not all the coaches managed to get to their destinations without being 'bailed up'.  Sometimes even the Royal Mail was removed by the bushrangers !

Alternatively, there are numbers of death registrations where the surname was not known to the informant (usually a police officer or a hospital attendant), usually as a result of a sudden unexplained death.   

I am not sure about Victoria, but I do know that in NSW, up until WWI, it was entirely possible for a Police Magistrate, or a Coroner to issue an order for a burial, often before any inquest was held.   Then they simply overlooked registering the death, (the regulations did not specifically direct either to register the death) or request the funeral director to register it.   

Cheers,  JM