Death certificates

[swinging60]

I need to find a death certificate for my gt. gt. grandfather.
On his daughter's marriage document in 1844 at Islington he was not stated as deceased, but was this always accurate ?
Can I expect to find stated on the death cert. his place of birth ?    I will be going to my nearest library to search the St. Catherine's house fiches.

I have his marriage entry in 1816 at Old Church. St. Pancras, London that I found on the LDS website.  I saw it on the microfilm, but it was very feint.  Is there anywhere else I can search in London?

Hope someone can point me in the right direction. I would be most grateful.

[Little Nell]

Welcome to RootsChat,

In answer to your first question, no, the info on the death certificate was not always accurate.  You have a few things you can do here:

1. Check the 1841 census for the family - not the most helpful of censuses (?censi??) but still it would help narrow down a time frame if Dad were dead.
2. Check the 1851 census for the same person - then you only have a 10 year time frame to check if he was alive in 1841 but dead in 1851, maybe only 7 years if you believe he was alive in 1844.
3. Check the marriage certificate - did he sign as a witness - hopefully she did not have a brother with the same name, but bear it in mind.

I think the original parish records will be at London Metropolitan Archives in Northampton Row.  Some libraries may also have them on film.

When you do find his death certifiacte, it will not contain his place of birth.  You need to find him alive on a census, preferably 1851, to get a rough idea of his birthplace.  1841 data only shows if the person was born in the same county as the census place.  1851 shows the actual town & county.  Hope and pray that it isn't Scotland or Ireland - if so, enumerators were often not be bothered with actual towns.  Also hope that it was either nearby or wasn't totally incomprehensible and he wrote down what he thought he heard!

Good luck.

Nell