u/BkLver24

Were minor children allowed to be an informant on a death cert in England in the 1860's? My 3x great grandfather William Unthank died on January 1, 1866 in Liverpool. Isabella Unthank is listed as the informant on the death cert. His mother and daughter were both named Isabella. His daughter (my 2X great grandmother) was 13 or 14 at the time. I was wondering if it was my 2X great grandmother or my 4x great grandmother was the informant? Isabella was the oldest child and her mother Mary Ann had passed away in the workhouse after giving birth to a child in early 1861. It is likely my 2X great grandmother as the death cert said Isabella lived at where the death took place. Very hard life for Isabella. She and her siblings end up in an industrial school. She is separated from them and sent to Blackburn and ends up 5 years later as a maid of all work in a druggist's home in an area where mill workers lived so not a middle class home. She next is listed as a weaver married to a weaver and dies at 43. My 2x great grandfather from family stories was not a great guy.