no mothers name on death cert

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baird
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no mothers name on death cert

Post by baird » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:27 am

checked out a death cert from 1923. her father is named and it says he is deceased but under mothers name it is blank apart from deceased. can anyone help pleae?
james c baird

AndrewP
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Post by AndrewP » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:06 am

Hi James,

It probably means that the informant registering the death did not know the deceased's mother's name. Not uncommon, I'm afraid, especially if the informant was a distant relative, or was unrelated to the deceased.

All the best,

AndrewP

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Post by LesleyB » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:25 am