General Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

Deaths (in UK) Un-recorded?

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Scott

Scott Report 16 Dec 2010 08:05

Hi, just wondering, is it the case that some deaths were never recorded? I have been searching for a relative - Joseph Samuel Alden, b. Bristol 1849 - but cannot locate a death certificate ANYWHERE??

Huia

Huia Report 16 Dec 2010 08:31

Perhaps he went overseas to live? I couldnt find the death of my gt gt grandfather then I eventually found he went to live in America.

Huia.

Researching:
Avatar: Red poppy holding a yellow poppy.

Click ADD REPLY button - not this link!

Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 16 Dec 2010 08:36

We determined he went to Australia in your other thread:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/trying_to_find/thread/1250754

Rose

Researching:
I am not related to you and I'm not your husband's first wife!

+++DetEcTive+++

+++DetEcTive+++ Report 16 Dec 2010 10:18

Look at any parish record burials, and you'll always find some 'unknown, found dead'. Sad, but true.

Researching:
Dormant member as from 20 Sep 2019 . Click on my board name to send a message

Scott

Scott Report 16 Dec 2010 11:29

Huia: I have checked overseas but without any luck so far.
Rita, thanks for your input.
Detective - thanks for the tip.

Rose: My subsequent research has found that - despite his mother apparently writing in her will that he was "abroad" - he almost certainly did not come to Australia with his family (I have checked original passenger lists; nor did he die at sea as I may have thought, and there is no death record for him in Australia). I am sure that his wife must have come out to Australia a widow; hence my needing to find a death certificate...

Thanks again,

Scott.

Potty

Potty Report 16 Dec 2010 12:30

freebmd has 597 deaths for "Unknown" in 1890 - most of them have no first names but one has "Bill the Painter".