Hello, I am writing to ask for info on Edward Briscoe born 1831 in Ireland and became a Footman at Flaxley Abbey and apparently drowned in a tragic accident in 1852. His parents were William and Johanna Briscoe of Littledean Lodge. The Parish Records section has a transcription of the burial at St Ethelberts, Littledean and I visited there last Saturday and saw the stone. It is still there but in poor condition, barely readable. I have searched the England and Wales death index for his death and I cannot find it. That has made me wonder as that seems very strange. Anyway any info on the event greatly appreciated.

There is a mysterious transcription in the Ancestry index :-

Name: __Ed_ Y__Min
Year of Registration: 1852
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Westbury On Severn
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 133

I wonder if it is :-

Year: 1852
Month: Aug
Day: 4
Surname: BRISCOE
Forenames: Edward
Residence: Flaxley
Age_at_death: 21
Officiating_Minister: H[enr]y M. Willis
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P110 IN 1/12
Page_No: 24
Parish_Chapel: Littledean

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Thank you Slowhands, very strange. Just gets more and more confusing. That's the best we've got so far anyway. If that isn't him them I don't know what name he is under.

Just to update people about this. I tried to order the death certificate of this entry but no luck. The GRO said that they could not search for the certificate as they need a proper full name so whatever or whoever is the person on the death cert we may never know.

I've had a look at the 'handwritten entry' for the reference 6a 133 year 1852, Westbury on Severn and the name is Eliza BROBEN - on FOD records, Eliza BROBBEN - age 16, Flaxley - 7 August 1852

- no Edward BRISCOE