Can anyone please tell me what information I would find, on a death certificate, for a death registered in 1839?
Would it be the same as a present day certificate.
janfran

Hi

Don't know about a death one, but the marriage ones I have from the 1840s do.

Pete

I suspect similar, but if other records are any indication - less detail than we get today - i.e. place of death may say "Hundred of ST Briavels" (!) rather than "Woodmans Cottage , Soudley"

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Thanks for the replies. I suppose I will only find out by sending for the certificate!! I really wanted the exact date of birth but maybe being that early that may not be correct.
janfran

I have a death certificate from 1851 which gives the age but not date of birth, but this was following a coroner's inquest, who was the informant so may not be typical.
William Jacobs, male, age 45 years, Labourer. Injury against a tree while holding a colt on the 9th June from the effects of which he died on 11th. "Accidental". Jim Barnett, County Coroner, Cheltenham.

Death Certificates contain the following information:

Link -> http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=6557

Thanks for all the help, I possibly wouldn't get the info I needed from the certificate.
janfran

If you are lucky the Baptism record may hold the date of birth, if not then Family Bibles or Headstones are other sources to consider.....

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