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hooch

hooch Report 24 Feb 2009 01:29

I know just what ya mean lol.

My great grandad has proved to be a total nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have the marriage cert for them think he fibbed about his age (my great nan def did says she was 23 in fact was only 19 lol and pregnant with my grandad)

Found my great grandad on the 1861 census saying he was born in Weybridge Surrey he was 4 months old when the census was taken since then zilch nothing till he marries in 1907 cant find him on any census returns despite searching for hours and hours for 2 years now lol. Can't even find his death!!!!!!!!!! very strange indeed. I thought I might have found his death but now I don't think it is him oh well back to square eyes lol.

Kate

Kate Report 24 Feb 2009 01:23

You're welcome - it sticks in my head because I've got this "great-great-great aunty" who may or may not have been the illegitimate child of one of her so-called sisters, and she died early in 1969.

If she had lived just a bit longer, I could have got a date of birth from the death index and maybe identified a birth certificate for her! These relatives don't make it easy.

I find death certificates really interesting - one of them I've got has his father-in-law as informant, another two state "no medical attendance" and the aforementioned great-aunty had a post-mortem and head injuries were noticed. (What that means, I don't know . . .)

hooch

hooch Report 24 Feb 2009 01:10

Hi Kate

Thank u xxxxxx

Kate

Kate Report 24 Feb 2009 01:03

Depends - on the newer certificates, it does. I have got a death certificate for my grandma who died in 1996 and that has got her birthday and place of birth recorded (as known to the informant) and the same thing happened with Grandma's sister who died in 1971 (although I know her birthplace is incorrect - but she lived there from the age of about one so it was probably what she would have believed to be correct, too.)

I think it changed in about mid-1969 because I've got death certificates from 1954, 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1966 for various relations but that just has their age at death in years.

hooch

hooch Report 24 Feb 2009 00:52

This is a stupid question really (i could wait till the morning and look myself but i really want to know now plz my hubbys asleep so cant get a death cert to look at)


On a death certificate does it say where the person was born as well? as i can't remember (been about 6 months since i looked at my certs)

any help appreciated

thank u
angie
xxx