Who When Where

If memory serves, it was a 1911 census entry for Brixton Prison which contained the "refused to give name" remark. ... Ooh, that does sound odd. Maybe he was just on remand? Maybe they'd had a job lot in from elsewhere, so they didn't yet know who was who unless they admitted it? Hmmm - I...

... I've also seen prisoners who refuse to provide their name and other particulars in census returns. ... I would have thought that's more likely to be the prison's admin staff - certainly at one time full names of people in institutions weren't given. But the admin staff would, by their very natu...

So, to list what we know given that we have confirmed the date of death earlier: The Manchester Burial Records are on https://www.burialrecords.manchester.gov.uk/ . These show that: Albert Edward Morse was buried at Southern Cemetery in grave SConsecrated (is that section S, Consecrated graves? not ...

Basically, all detailed personnel records are still held by the Ministry of Defence. It's not impossible that odd bits can be found outside the MoD in naval newspapers, say, but the full story - for reasonable privacy reasons - remains at the MoD. So that's why it's very unlikely that you'll find an...

... which therefore means, to state what is presumably obvious, that she was supposed to be registered in the Reg District of Oxfordshire - hence the GRO entry is as expected according to Antony's rules. Presumably, the way it's worked these days, they have registrars in both the areas around Oxford...

Here's what UK BMD has about Bullingdon on https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/bullingdon.html BULLINGDON REGISTRATION DISTRICT Registration County : Oxfordshire. Created : 1.10.1964 (out of Ploughley & Bullingdon registration district). Abolished : 1.10.2001 (to become part of Oxfordshire re...

Always worth a look in the FamilySearch Catalogue for the place. Try https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog , enter Bawburgh and see what you get. The description of the parish registers does appear to have that gap referred to above. However, there are also Archdeacon's Transcripts for Bawburg...

While you clearly registered her death where you did - have you ever checked to see where the death appears on the GRO index? I once thought that the death could be registered in another district and would therefore appear in the index for that other district but here's what Antony M had to say on i...