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Okay I have checked every possible spelling that I can think of but still can't find a Herbert Haigh from Retford area who died in 1901. Any suggestions?

I have only had one death cert that gave 'usual address' as the man died in hospital, but I do not think this is common place.

Thanks everyone that helps alot. :O) Gail

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Well Gwyn my GGF#1 was Henry Joseph Stevens from London born c.1872. In 1901 there is a H.J.Stevens in St Mary le Tower, Suffolk and the only possible Henry on the census. He was not listed with my GGM and she is listed as married. He is listed as a traveller C.(O?). My GGM had a son in 1903 by another man and on the birth cert. (I bought that one) it lists her as having the new man's last name- although I can find no record of their marriage so far. So I checked the freeBMD and there is a Henry Joesph Stevens as having died in Lancashire Dec 1901. Again the only Henry Stevens death around that time with the right age. So I'm confident it's him. My other GGF was Herbert Haigh b1867(+/- 2 yrs) from the Retford area.He was a farm labourer according to my Grandmother's wedding cert. He is also listed on it as deceased, and I also know my GGM remarried in 1914. He is not listed with his wife on any census and she is a widow in 1901. My Grandmother's birth was registered in June1902 so I am assuming my GGM had just become pregnant just before the census and Herbert also died just before it as well. Poor GGM. I am thinking maybe he went to war? I am also thinking that my Grandmother's birth may have been registered later then it should have been. Sorry this is so long but am I on the right track do you think?

Which years are we talking about? It's not easy if they have a common name and it sometimes means tracking other people back from death registrations to see whether there is a more likely match to them...rather than your relative. Occupation also gives leads. One of my Sussex-born men died on a boat on the River Mersey in 1915. He was in that area as a seaman in 1881 but had moved back to the south afterwards.... His job obviously took him back north. Gwyn

Thanks that helps but it also causes alot of problems (and expense if you order all of the records for possible matches) if you don't know fir certain where someone died. I am trying to track my great grandfathers (2) and both seem to have died away from where they were and their families living at the time of the nearest censuses. What's a person to do?

For what info is on a BMD cert use this link http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm Roy

I have never actually ordered a death certificate so I don't know what's on them. I would like to know if the places shown on the death registry is the actual place someone died even if they were not from there. For example if John Smith from London, died in Liverpool while visiting his Aunt, is he registered as Liverpool or London? Gail

Liverpool. A death must by law be registered in the area where it occurred. The following info about the contents of death certs is from freebmd Introduction Heading Register Number Date and Place of Death Sex Age Occupation Cause Of Death Name and Surname of the Deceased Informant's Details Date of Registration Registrar's Signature Reg