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Margaret Elizabeth

Margaret Elizabeth Report 28 Jan 2010 21:51

thank you everyone for your help, i prob did know the answer deep down but she was a kind and quite wealthy person when i was a child and i just thought WHATS HAPPENED HERE for her to end her days like this. thanks again mgt

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 28 Jan 2010 20:30

If you get her death certificate, you will find out the cause of her death




and, as Margaret says, you have probably answered your own question.


If she became too sick to care for herself, and there was no other family alive or able to care for her, then she would have had to go into a care home.


That probably took all the money that she might have had, and thus DSS would have had to pay for her funeral. And there would ahve no-one to pay for the gravestone





sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Margaret Elizabeth

Margaret Elizabeth Report 28 Jan 2010 09:14

hi there, just wondered how she came to end her days in a care home ,because i thought it very sad,and why she had to have her grave paid for by the DSS . All her immediate family had died and her grave was unmarked.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 28 Jan 2010 05:27

what information do you want to know?



sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Margaret Elizabeth

Margaret Elizabeth Report 28 Jan 2010 00:07

can anyone suggest where to find information from re a great great aunt who died in a care home in 1978.the care home is now been demolished. manchester.gov.uk. have been very good but cannot find any information many thanks mgt