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Margaret

Margaret Report 28 Aug 2006 13:37

O.C., I think anything is possible but I don't somehow think it's probable. My contact states 'I believe she must have been fairly young when she died as I don't remember ever seeing her but know she was a small very plump lady and died of an embolism'. M. Steer

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 28 Aug 2006 13:07

Margaret I hate to be the one to tell you this, but are you sure she died? 'Your mother died' was often the euphemism used to cover the fact that the mother had run off with someone else. Could this be possible, do you think? OC

Margaret

Margaret Report 28 Aug 2006 12:59

Thanks all for your replies. I think I must get back to my contact - maybe there's one tiny detail she or I have overlooked that could solve the problem. M. Steer

Unknown

Unknown Report 28 Aug 2006 12:42

Ages at death can be wildly inaccurate. All the Registrar has to go on is what the informant tells him. If the informant was not a family member, or even if they were, they may well not have known.

Unknown

Unknown Report 28 Aug 2006 12:37

Is there a possibility she married a second time?

Unknown

Unknown Report 28 Aug 2006 12:28

Age at death isn't necessarily accurate. I wouldn't discount anything that was within say a 5 year range.

Margaret

Margaret Report 28 Aug 2006 12:26

I've been trying to find out what happened to my Gt.Aunt for a couple of years. The other day I made contact with another GR member who is her Granddaughter. She didn't know a lot about her but was able to tell me when, where and who she married. I thought I'd 'struck gold'. Unfortunately, she didn't know when she died but thought she must have been quite young. I've checked every qtr. for every year from the birth of her last child until she would have been 60 (1939) but I can't find her. My eyes are sore and I'm feeling dizzy - can anyone help? The lady in question is Bertha Jane Hillier (nee Saywell) born 1879. She married in 1906 (Finchley-London). Her last child was born 1913. I've found Deaths for three Bertha Hilliers but the ages don't fit. M. Steer