Adding Twigs and Leaves Part 4
I've written about the problems that this Donald Family are causing me, regarding the number of children the family, could, should or does have. My thought was to get George Donald's 1870 death certificate and see how many were listed on that. Well... Searching the New South Wales Birth, Death and Marriages Index, I found that there wasn't an entry for him. (Here we go again!) Thought outside the box by using wildcards in my searches, nothing, left out the name George and narrowed the year, nothing. Now you are thinking, 'how does she know it is 1870?' Fare question, 1) I have stood at his gravesite, 2) there are death notices in various newspapers, both in NSW and England, 3) Several articles about the inquest, in different newspapers and 4) the actual entry in the Registers of Coroner's Inquests and Magisterial Inquiries-1834-1942, found on Ancestry. He is dead and buried. I contacted my transcription agent, Joy Murrin and she couldn't find it either. I...