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Where could the death certificate be? John Smith died at Christmas in a Birmingham hospital, but lived with his family in Nuneaton. He was born in July, 1886 and died aged about 65??...so I was told by my father (dec); unfortunately family maths is not always accurate.
The death was supposed to be 1951, 2 or 3. I have sent for lots of John Smith certificates, but none have the right address (College Street, Nuneaton). No one in the family can remember for sure and I can't find the right one in the Nuneaton registry online.
Would there be a Birmingham hospital list I could use? An ambulance took him from a park in Birmingham in a state of collapse on Christmas Eve and he died later that night/early morning.
The John Smith name seems to be the greatest challenge in research! Please help!

Nuneaton would come under as Coventry Warwickshire


his death wont appear till the next year,in the first quarter..would help if he had a second name.?

Yes, I understand about the death appearing in the next quarter.
John Smith is the name on his birth and marriage certificate, also the 1911 census etc.

If he died in Birmingham his death will be registered there.
Deaths are registered where they died,not where they lived.

You need to try asking Birmingham reg office to search for it I would think.

Did you see this one.

John Smith.

1952

Oct/Dec.

9c-738.

District--Coventry Warwickshire

Age 66.

giving an est birth year - 1886

Name: John Smith
Death Registration Month/Year: 1953
Age at death (estimated): 66
Registration district: Birmingham
Inferred County: Warwickshire
Volume: 9c
Page: 119

O/N/D Quarter

Deleted 2nd one as JC is correct,Brighton on image not Birmingham.

There are two other possibles I see (FBG's right about place of reg -- where he died, not where he lived)

Name: John Smith
Death Registration Month/Year: 1952
Age at death (estimated): 67
Registration district: Birmingham
Inferred County: Warwickshire
Volume: 5h
Page: 46

Nope, rule that out, it's a mistranscription. It was Brighton (from the original GRO list).

The other is this:

Name: John Smith
Death Registration Month/Year: 1953 - oct-nov-dec quarter
Age at death (estimated): 66 = c1887
Registration district: Birmingham
Inferred County: Warwickshire
Volume: 9c
Page: 119


I guess it might help if you told us which ones you'd ruled out, as this may have been wasted effort.


Yes, by two of us, perhaps.

Check the image for that first one, FBG -- do you get the same result, Brighton not Birmingham?

Thanks for your help so far, I will check the Birmingham certs I have and get back later. It was Birmingham not Brighton.

Seems to just leave the one possible then?

My grandfather lived in Woodford but died in Hackney at the hospital he worked in as that is where he wanted to die,his death is reg in Hackney NOT Woodford

John died on Dec. 25th , therefore the registration must be in the Jan feb Mar quarter of the following year
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It is not 9c 119 in 1953 Oct-Dec.

Then you need to ask Birmingham Reg Office for a search really if you have that cert and it is not him.

But I would have thought that they would have opened the day after boxing day as they do now,and closed again for new years day,my local one does that.
Registrars also go to the hospitals to reg things,I guess they would have done so in the 50s as well,my birth was reg in hospital as the registrar went there to do birth regs,and that was in the 50s

Thanks for the info about the hospital reg in the 50's, I didn't know that.
I have sent an inquiry to Birmingham reg.
It's great to find helpers!

I was born between Christmas and the New Year and was registered in that December quarter.
Dad had taken note when the office would be open, so was able to register me without delay.

Gwyn

Yes, Gwyn, I think you are right that the death could have been registered in Dec qtr - the world didn't come to a standstill then between Christmas and New Year as it does now!

Sheila, we know the death was not in Brighton. If you follow what was said -- in the index at Ancestry.co.uk, that death is shown as in Birmingham. I looked at the digital image of the real index (to check what quarter it was in), and saw that it really says Brighton, not Birmingham. Ancestry has a mistake in its transcription. (I submitted a correction.) I left it in your thread so that no one else would spend time adding it here (FBG was too quick, she already had). I said "rule that out" because it was *not* a possibility, not because I somehow thought it was.

I hadn't understood why you thought the death could not have been registered in Q4 of the year it occurred; it seemed to me that a death in an institution especially might have been registered promptly. I gather nothing much gets done in England between Christmas and New Year now. ;) I think it's not quite as bad here in Canada!

Think I have found it at the end of 1951; I will know in a week when the certificate arrives.
Thanks very much everyone I will post the result.

I clicked "add" and got the Report Abuse form ... and I'm afraid I managed to report my post at 14:37. Ah, the gremlins.


Anyhow

Name: John Smith
Death Registration Month/Year: 1951
Age at death (estimated): 65
Registration district: Birmingham
Inferred County: Warwickshire
Volume: 9c
Page: 119

? which we seem to have managed to miss. ;) It's hugely annoying that Ancestry won't search deaths pre 1969 by month/quarter, especially when you have a John Smith!

To Err is human, Janey,so we both must be human

I now have the death certificate for 1951, so thanks everyone for a successful search.

Glad to hear that you now have it....We are good on here.... init?