From: steven@stevengibbs.me.uk   
      
   On 14/08/2022 17:50, Peter Johnson wrote:   
   > On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 15:49:18 +0100, Jenny M Benson   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I have the Death Certificate of Susan Cooper who died of Chronic   
   >> Dysentery on 17 January 1838 in St Luke's Workhouse, Hoxton New Town.   
   >> She is described as a "Pauper"GED 39 and the death was registered on 19   
   >> January by the Master of the Workhouse.   
   >>   
   >> I also have an image from the Burial Register of St Luke's Old Street   
   >> which shows the burial of Susanna Cooper of Playhouse Yard, aged 39, on   
   >> 28 January 1838.   
   >>   
   >> Is it reasonable to assume that these records relate to the same person?   
   >>   I cannot find another Death Registration or Burial record to fit.  I   
   >> believe that at least the Burial is of my relative Susanna Fransham,   
   >> wife of William Edward Cooper who was also buried at St Luke's in 1838.   
   >   
   > It would be very unusual in 1838 for there to be such a long gap   
   > between death and burial, although January in 1838 (and until recent   
   > times) would have been cold enough to freeze the corpse.   
      
   I've done some checking with the deaths register for Bedford Union   
   Workhouse. A gap of five days was quite usual, six days occured   
   occasionally and I found a couple of gaps of seven days, but nothing   
   longer. (The date of burial given in this register usually differed from   
   that in the parish register!) But it's a different type of area from   
   inner London, a small register and, from what I can see of St Luke's on   
   Ancestry, their records seem to be very minimal compared to Bedford's. I   
   don't think you can rule it out on the basis of a gap of nine days,   
   especially as there seem to be no other plausible alternatives.   
      
   Steven   
      
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