Who When Where

I've been in the storerooms of a county archive, and fairly recently, which had buckets placed around to catch the drips from their leaky roof, so not that surprising !

Generally, not very safe at all, but you have to consider what data they hold that isn't easily available to find elsewhere....

(although the BL do say that user data isn't involved in this hack ...... but who knows at this stage)

The digital download option has now been extended to cover deaths up to 1957

They are in Church St, Littleover in 1871 ( the next entry down is for New Road)

RG10
piece 3553
Folio 84
page 24
schedule 124

Ancestry have her transcribed as Thaddea Stopford, FindMyPast as Taltha Stoppard

I also had to re-acquaint myself with the rules for unmarried mothers' maiden names (MMN). GRO contends that they have a blank MMN - I guess they were simply indexing the "formerly" name. LancashireBMD records their MMN as their current name. GRO are correct - for all registration purpose...

I understand that GRO have finally made their (not so) "secret" instant digital download system available to the public, although still officially as a beta test system This covers births from 1837, up to 100 years ago, and deaths from 1837 to 1887, which can now be instantly obtained at a...

I believe that recent wills have been scanned on receipt and stored digitally for some years, so if you order one of those you will usually receive it very quickly. Older/historic wills that have never been requested before have to be retrieved from storage and scanned when someone orders a copy, so...

This type of annotation in Catholic baptisms usually links to a later marriage, but as that took place in 1928, this appears to be something else. It could say maluminum, which would come from malum , meaning evil, but can also be "misfortune". The next word could be untrasiit = "uncr...

meekhcs wrote: ↑09 Sep 2022, 08:42 GRO finally acknowledged my request for confirmation of the James Parmintor death registration in 1879, and said I would receive an answer in due course!

The only answer you will get from GRO is a referral to the process for ordering a certificate.

For any death that goes to inquest, the cause of death is recorded as whatever the coroner decides it should be - the registrar has no leeway to make any alteration to the exact wording the coroner uses. Sounds like an unusual case and I would expect there to be some discussion between the RG and th...