Do you think JM that either of the DC's would be more informative?
Neil
I know that civil registrations have more opportunities for finding family history information, as there were more questions to be answered .... Even in the 1800s government administrators wanted to keep themselves busy
pushing paperwork, so there's lots more questions to be answered when registering bdm events
Of course the family history info found on a dc is only as reliable as the informant's own knowledge, and as Emma Dyast was no longer living with her lawful husband, John, it is entirely possible that the chap who died in 1860 was actually her husband but the informant was not aware that John was married (assuming of course it was the elusive John Dyast/Cousins death). On the other hand, I would not expect to find ANY information on the burial record ("V") to help with finding the names of that chaps parents....
Merlin has found the parish for that 1860
death burial .... so that should lead to a headstone or at least a cemetery list which may help
But if trying to avoid providing bag loads of pennies towards the NSW government's budget, I would go for the civil death transcription .... it could eliminate that chap, thus giving confidence that John was still living when the 1871 searching was occuring across all the antipodean colonies.... and it is possible that IF it is for Iforani's chap, that it could give details as to when married, who married to, names of children of the marriage, plus his age, place of birth, names of his parents (including nee name of mum) and it will certainly give cause of death, and place of burial as well as his address and occupation in 1860, and length of time in NSW (helping to check the arrival details
The "V" (Early Church Record) is only the equivalent of the English burial order, so will NOT have any information about cause of death, nor any of the responses to all those questions on the death cert
.
I hope I am making sense, it is not nearly as complicated as it first seems.
Cheers, JM
