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From: Ada Ackerly <>
Subject: Re: re death cert W. HAZELBY
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 09:43:26 +1000
In-Reply-To: <EFEAIJLDLDGGCLJPPHKKOENECCAA.hotel1@bigpond.net.au>


At 08:21 03-07-01 +1000, Barry and Sandra Campbell wrote:
>HI Listers,
>how does one get a death cert for William HAZELBY when there is no death
>listed for him in the death records yet I have a coroners report for him.

Hello Sandra,

Check the inquest coroner's name. If it is Dr GLINDINNING then I can tell
you that, as early as 1856 he was filling in his inquest schedules with
very little information on the poor victim, (he was paid on his schedules)
and refusing to go to the offices of the various Deputy Registrars around
the Ballarat/ Bungaree/ Steiglitz areas to sign the death certificates. Not
signed, they could not legally be registered.

There were sixty such in the first three months of 1856 alone. The poor
Deputy Registrar appealed to the Attorney General to allow the undertaker
who buried them to be allowed to sign the death certificate when he came to
lodge his account for payment, but the ACT did not allow substitution on a
legal document.

If it is Dr GLINDINNING, then you know you are not alone in your problem,
and if it's so, then I will know that he kept it up until at least 1862!.

>He died October 1862

regards,
Ada Ackerly
formerly Ackerly DocuSearch

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