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Death Bessie Cook

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Grainne 20118919191919

Grainne 20118919191919 Report 23 Feb 2011 19:41

Thanks

GRace

Julie

Julie Report 23 Feb 2011 19:25

TBH you could have look yourself as this site i used is free....heres the link for it....http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

If she married the you need to look under her married name

Andrew

Andrew Report 23 Feb 2011 19:24

If this is her birth


Births Sep 1893 (>99%)
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Cook Bessie Florence Clutton 5c 528


then you need to check records with middle name

Andy

Grainne 20118919191919

Grainne 20118919191919 Report 23 Feb 2011 19:22

Thank you all, I can rule that one out now.

Regards

Grace

Lynne From Up North !!

Lynne From Up North !! Report 23 Feb 2011 19:22

Name: Bessie Cook
Death Registration Month/Year: 1940
Age at death (estimated): 77
Registration district: Weston-Super-Mare
Inferred County: Somerset
Volume: 5c
Page: 1328

If this is the correct Bessie, then she was born in 1863!!!!!

Researching:
Balmer, Hullock & Dewis in Westmorland - Riley in Cumberland

Andrew

Andrew Report 23 Feb 2011 19:19

If this is the record, then her age is 30 years wrong

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
about Bessie Cook
Name: Bessie Cook
Death Registration Month/Year: 1940
Age at death (estimated): 77
Registration district: Weston-Super-Mare
Inferred County: Somerset
Volume: 5c
Page: 1328

Andy

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 23 Feb 2011 19:19

that one is 77!

Name: Bessie Cook
Death Registration Month/Year: 1940
Age at death (estimated): 77
Registration district: Weston-Super-Mare
Inferred County: Somerset
Volume: 5c
Page: 1328

def. 77 on the typed index

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Julie

Julie Report 23 Feb 2011 19:18

Is this the one you want

Deaths Sep 1940 (>99%)
Cook Bessie 77 Weston 5c 1328

Any info you want from the cert you'll need to buy it im afraid

Grainne 20118919191919

Grainne 20118919191919 Report 23 Feb 2011 19:14

Could someone please look up the death of a Bessie Cook in Somerset in 1940 (from Ancestry).

Trying to find what happened to her after 1911 (living in Bath).She was born in 1893 in Clutton.I have all the census and other family.information.

Thanks

Grace