Have you read this last post of ShaunJ?
It is very informative. I am starting to question the validly of my death certificate now. I have been querying it ever since I received it 2004.
Cannot find another registration that would fit. and am told nor do NSW registry.
The civil registration process for registering bdm in NSW commenced in 1856. So a sudden death after Feb 1856 in any regional area should be registered with NSWBDM ...but .... and it is a huge B U T .... not all sudden deaths in that era were formally registered. If a coroner or police magistrate authorised a burial prior to a formal enquiry then that burial order should have been followed by the next step ... formally registering a death. However, sudden deaths were not a frequent event.
To me, the death registered in Cassilis has absolutely no connection with the sudden death in a coach accident in the Tarcutta / ALBURY area.
I have written many posts across a number of years on many threads on the Australia board, noting that NSWBDM processes in the 1850s through to WWI were based on verbal advice to local deputies. Missing rural or regional death registrations when the death was a sudden/accident/police enquiry/coroner is not unusual in those early years of the civil process.
JM
