No record of death

[sigma]

Is there any reason a death may not have been recorded.
The death would have occurred between 1896 and 1950

[dotty.]

it could be that you are not finding it in the GRO index but it may be registered in the original RD, or it is registered in a surname you have not looked at. i can hve a look if you like to see if it is just not in the actual transcribed index, what is the name and date of death/district?

[sigma]

Thanks dotty, It's Mary Stone nee Monk she was born 1858 and lived in Ockbrook, Derbyshire so it's probably Shardlow district.

[dotty.]

there is only one between those dates registered at shardlow but the birth year is given as 1861
Name: Mary Stone
Birth Date: abt 1861
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1947
Age at Death: 86
Registration district: Shardlow
Inferred County: Derbyshire
Volume: 3a
Page: 532

[cazzz1975]

did you find that via ancestry dotty?

[dotty.]

looking at the GRO birth index there is no mary monk registered in derbyshire in 1860/61

[dotty.]

yes

[sigma]

That looks a likely contender but I'm surprised at the age. would have thought she would have died at a younger age from Cirrhosis as she was a notorious alcoholic.

[dotty.]

it could be she is one of the other 2 Mary Stone entries in the Derby area then but was perhaos in hospital as opposed to at home

[Segilla]

Many reasons for omissions. Bad writing, mistranscription, loss of records.

In the case of my Cullimore item, due to bad writing it was Collimore at the GRO, but being a local name, the Welsh registry recorded it as Cullimore.

Not quite the period of your problem but if you read 'Comedy of Errors' by Mike Foster, a New Zealand academic who was allowed to examine the records and who wrote a detailed and scholarly analysis, you will find he estimated 1m names are omitted, mistranscibed etc from the GRO indexes between 1837-1900.
Surprisingly he was allowed back for a second visit resulting in yet more alarming revelations, and if memory serves it was then that he found index slips between index drawers and the cabinets ... .
He wrote a second book about that visit.

Digitisation of these records is long overdue.

[craft1948]

What was her husband's name?

[dotty.]

Segilla it used to be the case with FindMyPast that you got credits for reporting transcription errors, I ran my account solely on those credits for a year or so! they've given over doing that now i think, if ancestry did that they'd go broke.

[craft1948]

I think the Mary Stone who died in 1927 was married to a John William, and the one who died in 1948 was married to a Henry............

[dotty.]

sigma this notorious alcoholic family legend, does that stem from first hand experience or just from someone who fell over her?

[sigma]

In the 1890's she was arrested on numerous occasions and fined 10s for being drunk and disorderly. She also used to pawn the children's clothes so that she had enough money to go drinking which resulted in her being prosecuted at least twice by the N.S.P.C.C. for "unlawfully neglecting her children" for which she was sentenced to 3 months hard labour. All the cases including assault were put down to her drinking.

[sigma]

As for her husband, he was Thomas Stone who died in 1910 in Shardlow Union Workhouse. In 1911, their daughter Elizabeth was in the workhouse but there's no mention of Mary

[dotty.]

could mary have re-married after thomas died? she would have been in her 50s and so would need supporting