GRO Death registration

[AntonyMMM]

If you have a cert from the p1584 reference and there is nothing on it to indicate anything out of the ordinary then you would have to order another cert using the p1583 reference and see what arrives.

My guess would be that it is either an indexing error by GRO, or possibly that the entry was mistakenly submitted twice by the registration office during the quarterly returns process.

No way of knowing just from the index.

[meekhcs]

As jon_ni suggested I looked at pages 1583 and 1584 on Free BMD and the entries were recorded as shown on attached pages.

I have asked GRO for an explanation and am still waiting for a reply. I am reluctant to payout for a second certificate if this is just an admin error.

[meekhcs]

and P 1583

[meekhcs]

Looking at the pages more closely it seems 3 entries have been "doubled up". Hmmmm

[Jon_ni]

strange indeed, I have seen a birth registered by a midwife then subsequently by the mother herself a week or two later but that was 80-100 years before this. 2 children/people might have seperately registered the death on the different pages.
As Rosie says just the 2 entries on the 1985 computer printout/image on pages 1583 & 1584 https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=276264998:7380&d=bmd_1750653180

If look at the other names Sharp, Desmond is indexed twice (on the image as well as the FreeBMD transcript) and as Marshall, Desmond on page 1583 hence 12 entries (2 too many).

Page 1584 has 11 entries because Walker, John is indexed under his forname and his title of Lord, as a finding aid to the single entry.

[meekhcs]

Thanks everyone. It will be interesting to see what GRO have to say.

[jonwarrn]

Looking at the pages more closely it seems 3 entries have been "doubled up".

The Camden entries on those two pages are all doubled up one way or another
Thomas Honeyfield is on 1582 and 1583
Desmond Marshall on 1582 and 1583
Frederick Thomas Litchfield on 1584 and 1585
Deborah Mary White on 1584 and 1585

There are some others.

[meekhcs]

It will be interesting to hear what the GRO have to say, especially as they are showing THREE entries on their website,

[rosie99]

It will be interesting to hear what the GRO have to say, especially as they are showing THREE entries on their website,

GRO has 3 entries one of which has been duplicated.  It is not unknown for them to have duplicate entries on the site, I have seen them before. As John has mentioned there are other entries in Camden reg district with two different numbers. 

Let us know what the GRO say when you get an answer