GRO Death registration

[meekhcs]

Please can anyone tell me why a death would have been registered twice with the GRO? I have a death in 1985 that has been registered twice, with consecutive numbering.
Thank you

[rosie99]

Could this just be an error on the website you are using or are you viewing the original register

[carol8353]

A friend of mine gave the wrong DOB when his mother died.
He had to go back a few days later and amend it.
She now has 2 death registrations (this was in 2017)

[AntonyMMM]

A friend of mine gave the wrong DOB when his mother died.
He had to go back a few days later and amend it.
She now has 2 death registrations (this was in 2017)

That should have been a quite simple correction - not another registration ?

[AntonyMMM]

Please can anyone tell me why a death would have been registered twice with the GRO? I have a death in 1985 that has been registered twice, with consecutive numbering.
Thank you

It may be an indexing issue, but without details it is impossible to say. There are very few reasons why a death would need to be registered again ( i.e. a re-registration).

[PaulineJ]

Please can anyone tell me why a death would have been registered twice with the GRO? I have a death in 1985 that has been registered twice, with consecutive numbering.
Thank you

Is it the same man/woman? a common enough surname? It's not so very unusual to have two namesakes with the same birthday. a stretch to registering in the same year and qtr isn't beyond impossible.

Pauline

[Jon_ni]

a death in 1985 that has been registered twice,

with consecutive numbering.

A death index entry in 1985 will have the person's DOB and the Month of registration plus the usual volume and page references & District.
Each page had up to ten entries (if click on the page numbers on FreeBMD) entered chronologically by date/time of registration.
By consecutive numbering do you mean consecutive Pages in the same District or do you have the actual certificates showing the entry number??
The name of the person and District etc would assist.

Edit: From 1984, the indexes are in annual instead of quarterly volumes but include the month of registration. image added

[meekhcs]

Thank you everyone for your replies.
I am attaching the search page from GRO
I have a copy of the death cert ordered under the page 1584 ref. which I actually took from FindMyPast

 

[rosie99]

Freebmd
Deaths 1985 
TWIGG    GEORGE    5MR1929    CAMDEN    14   1583    
TWIGG    GEORGE    5MR1929    CAMDEN    14   1584   

ADDED The image that this information was taken from is available to view and does give both entries