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motorcycle death London 1927!!?

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Val :~)   from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 24 Jan 2005 22:18

Hi Susan yes I shall give your suggestion another try, now we have narrowed the years to look up!! thanks for the suggestion Val

Val :~)   from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 24 Jan 2005 22:34

Gwynne Could I please ask you a great favour?? You suggested that I look up the newsapers in the Colindale Library!! I dont appear to be able to get very far!! Can you please explain how I go about finding this information? best regards Val

Val :~)   from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 24 Jan 2005 22:35

Susan I tried all the different names on BMD and 1837, NOTHING!!!! HELP!!!!! regards Val

Dawn

Dawn Report 24 Jan 2005 23:32

Hiya Val Try 'googling' 'Colindale Newspaper Library'. Kind Regards Dawn XX

Val :~)   from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 24 Jan 2005 23:50

Hia Dawn I tried Google got to the newspapers but cant understand where to go, to find what I want (obituaries or accidents) Thanks for trying regards Val

Dawn

Dawn Report 24 Jan 2005 23:56

Val Did you try the 'search' facility on the top left hand side? XX

Val :~)   from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 25 Jan 2005 00:01

Hia Dawn yes |I did!!! I put in obituaries NOTHING!!! Val

Dawn

Dawn Report 25 Jan 2005 00:03

Val Why don't you e-mail them and see if anyone can help you? Frustrating isn't it? XX

Val :~)   from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 25 Jan 2005 00:06

Hi Dawn Yes I thought I would try that tomorrow!!! Many thanks for your help!!! regards Val

Dawn

Dawn Report 25 Jan 2005 00:11

I wish I could help more Val!! Funny old hobby this isn't it?!! Keep chipping away!! Dawn XX

Val :~)   from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 25 Jan 2005 00:14

Hi Dawn I've called this man The illusive FHG!!! he just doesnt appear to want to be found!!!! Thanks again though for your interest !!! regards Val

Jools

Jools Report 25 Jan 2005 00:17

He wouldn't by any chance have been aged 18 when he died?? There is this death on the GRO JAS 1927 GEORGE Frederick, 18, Manchester N., vol 8d, page 523

Val :~)   from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 25 Jan 2005 00:19

No Jools He was born about 1881 and supposidly died in 1927!!!! Thanks anyway for your help!!!!! regards Val

Joan Palmer

Joan Palmer Report 25 Jan 2005 01:01

Hi Val Excuse me butting in here, but if you find this death was in West Ham and you don’t have any luck with Colindale Newspaper Library, I can look in Stratford Library for you. I’m not sure which newspapers they hold though. Joan x

Guinevere

Guinevere Report 25 Jan 2005 06:49

Hi Val, Only saw this this morning. The only way to get anything from the library is a personal visit. From their website you can see which newspapers covered the area of the death. When I have a date and likely papers I contact a researcher and she does the search for me and copies the articles. She has done several searches for me (from an exact date) and her charges are very reasonable. She "saves up" requests until she has enough to make a day in the library worthwhile which keeps the costs to clients down. Email me for her contact address. Gwynne

Val :~)   from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 25 Jan 2005 22:12

Hi Gwynne Have emailed you!! regards Val

Val :~)   from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 25 Jan 2005 22:30

Hi Joan Thank you! for butting in as you wrongly put it!!! Sadly I think I'm going to have one big problem with this man!!! With no definate dates or places of death, its hard to look up any papers!! I tried the suggestion given by Gwynne to google Colindale newspaper library, got through and asked if they had obituaries?, hoping that maybe I could have seen his name or details of the accident, but cannot find anything!! I'm probably not doing something right!! I really dont know!! As Ive said time and again,!! Im so grateful to all the kind people on here trying to help me! It has to be the bigest challenge I've had to overcome. Instead of calling him Frederick henry george I now mention the illusive FHG!!! he obviously doesnt want to be found Thank you again! for trying!! regards Val

Joan Palmer

Joan Palmer Report 25 Jan 2005 22:47

Hi Val I agree with you about your elusive FHG causing you a problem. I wish you luck finding his death and I shall watch, with interest, for an update. If he does turn up in my area, my offer to search our local newspapers will still stand. Regards Joan