Index To Death Duty Registers 1796-1903

[Fliss]

Can someone please explain how it is that in 1806 John Rushley appears in the Index, yet he did not die until 1807. He died intestate.
Your thoughts would be really appreciated.
Thank you!
Fliss

[LizzieL]

Maybe just a clerical error on the Death Duty register. Most of the ones I have seen have the name of the person paying the tax (usually executor if there's a will or next of kin). They also have a column for W or A (Will or Admon), and are arranged chronologically with a page per initial letter of surname.

 It looks as if the DD register here is an abridged transcript just for the one diocese. As John Rushley was buried in December 1807, maybe he was intended to be in the 1808 section.

[LizzieL]

There's this entry dated 1808 on search of Wiltshire archive

http://calmview.wiltshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog

[Bookbox]

You can preview and download (free) the entry in the DDR from the link below (wrongly indexed as Jonathan).
 
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7202223

This record shows that the administration was sworn on 16 July, under £1500, and the estate was divided 5 ways (4 children and 1 grandson, all named).

The page is headed 1806, but it may be an error (as suggested). Certainly the administration bond (on Ancestry) is dated July 1808, suggesting a death in 1807.

The memorial inscriptions transcribed by the Wiltshire FHS (indexed on FindMyPast) also give his burial as December 1807, his age as 62 or 64 and his wife's name as Mary.

[Fliss]

A big thank you for your replies; they have been really appreciated.
Fliss