numbers on death cert

[chempat]

I have only a few death certificates - no extra numbers/codes on any of them.

This uses codes in the studies, but I do not think it means that the numbers are on the certificates, just that the certificates are looked at and coded for the survey:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/pdf/occ8000.pdf

Still doing google searches, as, I agree, no reasonable explanation has been given.

Where did your certificate come from - who has handled them?

[ChigwellGavin]

I have only a few death certificates - no extra numbers/codes on any of them.

This uses codes in the studies, but I do not think it means that the numbers are on the certificates, just that the certificates are looked at and coded for the survey:

Hi,

I've got quite a few certificates of one kind or another, from memory the only one to have been altered is a birth certificate. The mother was unmarried but though the father's name was given it was crossed out.

This certificate is a copy from the registry office. I'm no expert but it looks like the details were added at the time.



http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/pdf/occ8000.pdf

Still doing google searches, as, I agree, no reasonable explanation has been given.

Where did your certificate come from - who has handled them?

[stanmapstone]

The death certificate carried several pieces of information that were used to create various tables published by the GROs in both England and Wales, and Scotland, in their Annual and Decennial reports. These included: when and where the person died; their place of residence; their sex; their age; their occupation; http://www.rootschat.com/links/01eia/ http://is.gd/SSb5Sy
There was the Supplement to registrar-general's seventy-fifth annual report. Part III: Registration summary tables, 1901-1910 http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ei9/
Stan

[chempat]

Stan,

Link does not work for me.

Added:
I mean the first link, as the second one was added after I posted.

[chempat]

Not all the pages of that second link open, but will blame my computer.

There is a difference between assigning numbers to occupations to produce a report, and actually writing those numbers on the death certificate.

If the links that I cannot read state that numbers were added to the actual death certificate then that answers the query, I suppose.

But why would someone add numbers and then give the certificate to the family?

Sorry, are you doing some further clarification?

[stanmapstone]

Stan,

Link does not work for me.

Added:
I mean the first link, as the second one was added after I posted.

Use http://is.gd/SSb5Sy
I have no idea why the numbers are written on this particular certificate, and we will probably never know.
Stan

[andycand]

Hi

Was the certificate issued by the GRO or the Local Register Office?

Andy

[chempat]

Thank-you for the new link.

[stanmapstone]

If the certificate is from the GRO then it will be a copy of the quarterly return, and not the original held by the local registrar. Possibly the numbers were added to the return by a clerk in the Registrar Generals Office.

Stan