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The answer to your question is: VERY LIKELY.
As Lesley said, the details in the death record came only from the person registering it (Birth certs etc did not have to be produced).

I'm currently...

You clever thing - thank you.

MACHIN never even crossed my mind ...

Filed as MARCHANT in the WW1 Service Records (WO 363):

George Henry MACHENT (or is it?
He married ADA GRANTHAM at St Silas Church, Sheffield on 8 June 1912. GRO Index shows 2 surnames: MACHENT &...

Both versions appear in his Record.
Birth was registered as MERCHANT (Q1 1893 Warrington).

Who knows which version his descendants use nowadays?

Misfiled as MARCHANT in the WW1 Service Records (WO 363):

Frederick MERCHANT, born Orford Barracks, Warrington, 23 January 1893.
Parents: Jesse James & Mary Catherine
Address: 6 Percy Street,...

"WW1 Service Records" is Ancestry's name for the collection - the official title is WO 363. I've quoted it because if someone's trying to find the record I've highlighted, that's where they need to...

This man joined the Army as George MARTIN, so is "mis-filed" in WO 363 (WW1 Service Records). Unfortunately, there is no family information ...

John OWEN joined the Regiment of Foot (no. 1671) in...

This man served as MARTIN, so is "mis-filed" in the MAR section of the WW1 Service Records (WO 363).
His mother and half-siblings are all surnamed MARTIN.

George joined the Argyll & Sutherland...

This man enlisted as George MARTIN, so is "mis-filed" in W360 ("WW1 Service Records" - although he was too old to have served in WW1).

Richard George GRAYLAND joined the ASC on 26 April 1876,...

Thank you Christina.
I fell for the old trick didn't I?
Moral: Never believe the declared age.

Jane

This man enlisted as George MARTIN, so is "mis-filed" in the WW1 Service Records (WO 363).

Alfred Thomas WEBB, enlisted 17 Aug 1914, declared age 41y 165d, born Old Ford, London. Previous service...

Good Luck with your hunting, antonyf.
There are bad apples in every barrel, and there's usually a reason.
And we can't change the past.
What happened, happened.
Move on.

Jane

as Pam said, followed by

tho nothing of the kind took place

("therefrom" is one word, and there's an apostrophe in "prisoner's")
Jane

Mis-filed in the MAR section of the WW1 Service Records (WO 363):

Matthew CARROLL, son of JANE CARROLL (address: 53 Smithfield, Dublin).
No clues to his age, but
He joined the Royal Artillery on...

Hello Rclair

All I can tell you is where NOT to look - the National Burial Index (3rd edition) doesn't cover London in 1937/1938.

I don't know London well enough to know the areas, but perhaps...

BNA has this newspaper.

To summarise:
Denbighshire Assizes
Jeremiah Cawley alias Crawley (45) of Liverpool was indicted for breaking into the house of Mrs Sibella Egerton of Gresford, and...

This man served as Charles Redvers Coats MARTIN during WW1. No birth is registered for that name, and there is a possibility that he is in fact Charles Redvers COATES (Q3 1900 N Bierley).
So in case...

Mis-filed as surname MARTIN in the WW1 Service Records (WO 363):

Martin Bartholomew Charles FINN, born Leicester (Birth registered Q1 1884).
Parents: Martin & Eliza.
Sisters: Helen (m...

This man's request for replacement discharge documents are filed (in the WW1 Service Records, WO 363) with the records of a Charles MARTIN.
MARTIN & MORRISON may be the same man, but no mention is...

The link worked for me, and revealed the extract that Christina posted (3rd entry down, right hand side).
I don't understand a word of it :frown5:

For those with Ancestry access:
- Yorkshire,...

A few pages (including wife's death certificate) mis-filed (not indexed) with another MARTIN in the WW1 Service Records (WO 363):

Alexander MARTIN, born c1886, served with the RFA, Regt No 23427....

Mis-filed as MARTIN in the WW1 Service Records (WO 363):

Albert Joseph MANTON joined the Loyal North Lancs Regiment on 19 January 1905, declared age 19y 10m (born Shoreditch), and served as...

In the WW1 Service Records (WO 363) this man's details are confused with (and even written on the same pages as) a FRED Marsden, also from Lancashire. I wonder whether "Timothy" was such an unusual...

I believe that this man is recorded as EDWARD MARSDEN in the WW1 Service Records (WO 363). If anyone finds differently, please let me know!

The papers are badly damaged, but the form completed by...

Just 2 pages mis-filed in the MAR section of the WW1 Service Records (WO 363):

Sidney SANDERSON, born February 1906, Bacup, Lancashire.
May have joined the Lancashire Fusiliers after the Great...