by nugentsmith » Sat Nov 14, 2020 5:37 pm
I am researching my daughter-in-law’s family and Phebe BATTY is one of her great (x5) grandmothers. I have read the background on BCC and there is a comment that a death certificate might help to fill in some of the gaps.
I have now obtained a PDF from the General Register Office (a very quick service at the moment), and the details are:
Index: Deaths/1864/March/Dudley/6C/16
Register: Dudley/Rowley Regis/1864/No 411/Reg on 18th March 1864
Death on 12th March 1864 at Gorsty Hill, Rowley Regis, of Phebe BATTY, Female, 89 years, Wife of John Batty, Excavator.
Cause of death – General Decay
Informant – The mark of Maria Berrisford, in attendance, Waterfall Lane, Rowley Regis
It seems that this is the right Phebe Batty, as the informantis likely to be Phebe’s daughter who appears in the 1841 Census as Mariah Parkes, and as Maria Bater on her marriage to Edward Berresford in 1847.
But does this help? And, is John Batty the same as John Parkes, and when did he die?