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Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Jane	Report	26 May 2007 19:04
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	I have just received a death certificate for a death registered in 1956. In box 7 for the signature, description and residence of the informant, it states a name and then says 'Causing the body to be buried' and the address of the deceased person. I haven't come across this phrase before and the person is not a relative, so I wondered if anyone could throw some light on it. Thank you.
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49 504 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	26 May 2007 19:09
	Its just the informant who has registered the death as a witness so can give authority for the burial, could be a doctor or a neighbour or anyone who signs that they know the deceased or are authorised to sign the death cert
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Jane	Report	26 May 2007 19:14
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Thanks Shirley - it makes sense as the gentleman never married. I just wondered why they had put his address rather than their own - unless it was a live-in housekeeper, perhaps.