Assistance needed with finding GP's deaths

[LorraineJ]

I am having difficulty in finding where and when my grandparents died.

He was William Charles Thomson and was born in Newark in 1876. He married Helen Jane Brown in June 1899 in Nottingham and the family including my Dad are shown as living in Nottingham in the 1911 census. Helen had to have been still alive in 1915 when my Uncle William was born but I don't know after that.

Have found Helen's death and William's father but not his.

[Margaret in Burton]

Lorraine

Have you searched the full GRO indexes and not just the FreeBMD ones. The ones where you have to view the actual images quarter by quarter and year by year.
They could still been living well into the 20th century. It's a matter of slowly trawling though them I'm afraid.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Would your parents marriage cert show if William Charles was alive or not, or couldn't that be relied upon?

[Olde Crone Holden]

Helen's DC would state whether she was wife or widow at the time.

OC

[LorraineJ]

When Helen died in 1921, my grandfather was still very much alive. My mother has very vague memories of meeting him for the one and only time in 1950/51, therefore he must have died sometime after that.

[Margaret in Burton]

When Helen died in 1921, my grandfather was still very much alive. My mother has very vague memories of meeting him for the one and only time in 1950/51, therefore he must have died sometime after that.

Then I'm afraid you will have to trawl every quarter after that to find him. No short cuts at all.

[LorraineJ]

Would your parents marriage cert show if William Charles was alive or not, or couldn't that be relied upon?

I'd have to get a 'new' copy of the marriage certificate, as my Mum had a thing about burning quite a lot of family records after my Dad died and she is totally against me trying to find out about my Dad's side of the family. She says and I quote "what good is it, its not important?" Far from putting me off, its enflamed my interest more.

[Margaret in Burton]

I'd have to get a 'new' copy of the marriage certificate, as my Mum had a thing about burning quite a lot of family records after my Dad died and she is totally against me trying to find out about my Dad's side of the family. She says and I quote "what good is it, its not important?" Far from putting me off, its enflamed my interest more.

Just make sure you order direct from the GRO or from the register office local to where the death took place.

Don't pay more than £7 (as in my signature)

[LorraineJ]

Just make sure you order direct from the GRO or from the register office local to where the death took place.

Don't pay more than £7 (as in my signature)

I do, thanks Margaret.

[KiteRunner]

If you know the address where he was living in 1950/1, you could look in the old phone books on ancestry to see if he was listed, and if so, when the listing stopped, but bear in mind that most people are only listed by their initials in the phone book. But probably not worth looking if you don't know the address because there would be too many people of the same name.