Janet (Matheson) Murray (bef. 1756 - bef. 1855)

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Pre-1855 deaths

Death registrations were introduced in 1855. I've checked everyone registered in the Stornoway district with this name who died before 1910, and none of them seems to be a match for this person. I'm therefore assuming that this person died before 1855, and the death was never registered.

The only possible exception would be the following: I've taken their names from their child's death certificate, as well as working from the child's birth year given there, to calculate the parent's own birth-year. If either the parent's forename or surname, or the child's birth year, are recorded incorrectly, this would cause problems in identifying the parent's death certificate. That would also be the case if the parent's own birth year was incorrectly recorded in their own entry in the Register of Deaths.

In a few cases - for example, a man or woman who look like they could possibly be the parent of a particular child because the names match - the child would have had to be born when the parent was aged between 5 and 16, if we're to believe all the dates given in the records. The records do seem to be pretty accurate though, so it's more likely that the parent was, in fact, the person listed above, and that they died before 1855 and the death was never recorded.

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