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Wartime deaths.

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WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 31 Jan 2019 20:49

Is there a record of civilian deaths from bomb strikes etc in wartime Britain ?

Researching:
Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.

safc

safc Report 31 Jan 2019 21:00

hi
try here

https://www.cwgc.org/

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Abby says please do not send messages to safc, always reply on your thread, as Abby is just a paying member of genes reunited. helping other members. thank you.

WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 31 Jan 2019 21:14

Thank you

Researching:
Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.

Catherine

Catherine Report 31 Jan 2019 22:12

you could also try ancestry

https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2706

WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 1 Feb 2019 14:29

Thanks, yes. Civilian deaths don't tend to be recorded by the commonwealth war graves commission ?

Researching:
Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.

Dea

Dea Report 1 Feb 2019 14:34

Yes they are on there - who is it you are looking for?

You can click on civilian deaths on the advanced search and it will just bring them up.

Dea x

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 1 Feb 2019 15:00

They most certainly are on the CWGC site........................

Civilian War Dead 1939-1945 (68873)

If the name isn't recorded, odds are the death wasn't as a result of enemy action

Have you found the Civil registration?

WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 2 Feb 2019 20:39

Okay, thanks for that. It was Henry and Lily Burrows, died in Fulham 1943. They're not recorded so I guess they just died the same year. Sometimes I guess you have to shell out for the certificate if you want to know the reason :-)

Researching:
Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 3 Feb 2019 05:18

Deaths Mar 1943
BURROWS Henry 68 Fulham 1a 345


Deaths Dec 1943
BURROWS Lily M M 66 Fulham 1a 395

Would seem coincidentally to have died the same year


Burrows Household (2 People)
101 Wandsworth Bridge Road , Fulham, London, England
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FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) DOB OCCUPATION
Lily M M Burrows 10 Sep 1877 Unpaid Domestic
Henry Burrows 30 Sep 1874 Public Work Labourer watchman
Ref: RG101/0150B/011/22 Letter Code: AGEH
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Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957