Record numbers in listing don't seem to refer to anything
Summary: List of deaths at sea contains only surnames and non-sequential numbers. The book doesn't seem to have any of the numbers elsewhere that would provide more information on the record.
Details:
"Births 1854-1871 Deaths 1854-1869 Marriages 1854-1865"
See a picture of the page here:https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/KZQ3-KX6
Or find page and book here:
Film 1419469 Image Group Number 7908529
Link: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/399234?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Image 524 of 654, on the right-hand page, which is the book's stamped page 121.
The page's third column begins with the name Buckeridge.
Line 20 possibly shows "Beadon" with record 1447.
Shouldn't record 1447 exist somewhere else in the book with more info about this entry?
The book seems to be a collection of birth, marriage and death lists from multiple sources without titles or sections. Therefore it's not obvious where this document begins and ends.
Any advice appreciated.
Answers
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The images on that DGS are restricted, for public accounts, to viewing only at an FSC or AL. From home, I can't see any explanatory notes that might be found at the beginning of the film.
Since that index page you posted as a memory is "courtesy of The National Archives, London, England" this explanatory note from the TNA may be useful:
And, when you are looking again at that image, online, you might open the "See More" on the Courtesy of box for any additional information that may be found there. It includes a "contact us" for the TNA.
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Thanks so much! I'll try the TNA as you suggested.
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That was a bit more complicated than I'd imagined…
I always get confused about UK BMDs overseas since they come in so many varieties and also, while some are behind the confidentiality wall of the General Register Offices, some aren't and you can see them on the open shelves at TNA, Kew (or wherever).
If you look up Image Group Number 7908529 in the FS Catalogue, it says that it's 4 reels from the PRO (now TNA) references BT 158/1-9.
Point 1 - when FamilySearch tells you that the image is from the UK's TNA and they are locked off for the general public (as they are here), there's a good chance that the images are behind a paywall - in which case, regardless of what's said elsewhere, the paywall is probably that belonging to FindMyPast or possibly one belonging to Ancestry.
The relevant FMP collection for this topic is British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials. That's an indexed collection which you might be able to access in various ways - obviously via an FMP subscription or also perhaps via a local library. (I'm saying nothing about what FS's collection looks like because I can't see it).
What had interested me about Jeanette's original question was - what on earth were those numbers? It's a question that can only be answered by trying to think like a bureaucrat, guessing possibilities and looking through the images.
Point 2- Fortunately FMP has a browse version of the collection above namely British Armed Forces and Overseas Browse. This is useful because sometimes FMP is poor at letting you walk through a film.
Firstly, search that browse collection for BT 158 (as per the FS Catalogue). There are 6 results - BT 158/1 thru /6. I then looked for Jeanette's image memory image with the stamped (folio number, I think) 121. I had to try each of the six and fortunately it's in BT 158/3. I nearly got fooled by the internal arrangement of the book - the posted image is one of a set of index pages in the book but the index pages at the front appears to be births and I had to go deep into the book to find the deaths, which are labelled as such on the first page only.
Scrolling through the data pages after the deaths index reveals the significance of the mystery numbers. No, they aren't page or folio numbers (my first guess) - they appear to be the consecutive number of the report from (usually) the ship's master and are written on the page over the top of the reported deaths on that voyage.
So, providing you can browse the book, @JeanettePenn , then if you browse forward from those index entries that you found, you should find the details of the deaths in report 1447. (Sorry, my FMP Ts & Cs won't allow me to do the look up for you).
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