Find Ancestors

If you order the cert from Wakefield reg office and specify the home address is Berkshire or wherever they will check first.

If the address isn't for Berks then they won't send the cert but they won't charge a penny piece for looking either.

Local register offices do NOT charge for reference checking points and no cert=no fee

Register Office (Wakefield)
71 Northgate
Wakefield
WF1 3BS

Phone: 01924 302185

Glen

So his name was William Herbert?
I wonder if thats the name he was known by?

Maybe his death was reg as Bill? Herb? or even Bert?

Gerri x

Same answers on Tips board.

Nudge, this thread is also on the tips board

Roy

I am thinking of one of the "Who do you think you are" series, where the parents had supposedly died in a rail accident (was it Griff Rhys Jones?) and it turned out they hadn't.

If your husband's family was led to believe that he had died, but you haven't found a death in the Berkshire area as you would expect, could it be that actually he had left the family home, and perhaps even remarried? Maybe the marriage registers are worth a scroll for a year or two?

I do admit a Wakefield death seems unlikely if he died in or around his home in Reading.

The newspaper archive could be useful, but would probably be hard to search especially as you don't know a date.

Another avenue may be, did he leave a will? If he had been in the army, he would have made a will, so he then may have kept that uptodate. If he did die around that time, you may find the will records.

Just a few thoughts...

Diane

the best way to find out if William Herbert Brown death being registered in Wakefield 1956, in the 3 quarter, vol;2D page 473 is his father is to order the certificate, see how old he was when he died, cause of deatth, and maybe person reporting was next of kin. Not much help i am afraid but could be worth the £7 if it turns out to be the one you are looking for.

Alternatively you could try local newspaper archives as if he did die in a RTA it may be mentioned

good luck

If he died traveling home where did he die? All deaths are recorded in the district that the death accured

hope this helps

Roy

Can anyone help us, we are tracing my husbands ancestry,we have got a little confused. My husbands father, William Herbert Brown, born 1922 in Kingsmoor Carlisle, his father was George Herbert Brown, born 1898 in Kingstown Cumberland, his parents were, George Brown, born 1856 also born in Carlisle he was married to Annie Cartner. That is the back ground to my husbands paternal heritage, this is where our problem arises my husbands father William moved south after being demobolised from the army and married Valeria Mercia Porter in July 1946 in the county of chichester, they lived and had a family in the area of Didcot Berkshire. we were as a family under the impression and was told that William died around 1956 (34-35 yrs old), he was on his way home riding his motor bike from Cholsly, which is near Reading Berkshire. But, after many hours of searching the death records we could only find 1 William Herbert Brown death being registered in Wakefield 1956, in the 3 quarter, vol;2D page 473, is there any way of finding out if this is his father william.My husband as we are lead to believe has no living relatives, unless of course any of your searchers out there know different. A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL,
regards Christine Brown