Dear David,
> I have a problem with a burial register (St George's Anglican
> Cemetery, Salford) for 1861 almost all entries have the initials RC
> by their name and naturally my first impression was that RC stood for
> Roman Catholic.
>
> However a few have the initials CO and some have the words Coroners
> Order written by them. The causes of death are also given in the
> register. All the CO entries relate to sudden accidental deaths and
> suicides which would have required a post mortem.
>
> Could the RC therefore mean 'Released by Coroner' and not Roman
> Catholic?
One possibility, especially since you have identified "CO" as "Coroner's
order", is that "RC" means "Registrar's Certificate".
Section 17 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1874 makes the
distinction between the two:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/37-38/88/section/17/enacted
... and I don't think that the 1836 act that would have been in force in
1861 would have been substantially different in this respect.
Best wishes
Paul
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Paul Betteridge, Leafield, Oxfordshire
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