Looking for a death

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

I am hoping to order the death cert for my gg grandfather Samuel Clarke & but am not sure I have the right death & would apprciate your opinions. He was born c1815, Great Ellingham Norfolk & was there from 1841-1871. I have him in 1881 with his daughter Mary Ann & her husband, Walter Rennie, in Hackney, his birth being given as 1812. I have found a death in Hackney in 1886 with the birth year being 1814 & Clark being spelt without the "e". Does this look like the right one?
Many thanks

[Little Nell]

How many Samuel Clark/es were born 1814/5, who could die in Hackney?

The problem is that you don't know what is on the cert to use as a checking point. He might not have died at the 1881 address, he might have been given a different occupation from the one you expect and you don't know whether his death was registered by his daughter or son in law or someone else.

[Little Nell]

If he isn't on the next census and there are no other possible deaths, I'd guess this is the right one.

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

I haven't found him on the 1891, he is certainly not with his daughter or sons. he isn't showing as having an occupation in 1881, but previously had been an ag lab. His son in law died in 1885, so he wouldn't have registered the death

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

I've found another Samuel Clark in 1881, in Hackney, born Southwark, but I think I have him in 1891 in Mile End workhouse, so hopefully the death is the right one

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

Yahoo! The cert arrived today, the day before it was due to be despatched & it is the right one! He died in the Hackney Union Infirmary & his death was registered by the steward there, which would explain the mis spelling of his surname & the incorrect age, BUT he is is listed as being a labourer & the address given is the same one that he had been living at in the 1881 census, 5 years earlier. I am so pleased that I took the risk & ordered it.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Well done, Lynn!

[Little Nell]

Lynn

So pleased for you. My grandfather died in Hackney infirmary and he was born in Norfolk too! His great grandmother was born in Ellingham.

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

Ooer Nell, that is spooky!

[Little Nell]

Well I suppose Stoke N is a likely place to go to if coming from Norfolk. Not sure where the trains went to in those days.

Curiously, when my grandfather first came to London he was lodging in a house in a road almost opposite one where my husband's great-grandparents were living. Neither husband nor me lived in that area, husband born West London and me in North East Surrey.

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

It was only his daughter that ended up in Hackney, his son's lived in Battersea

[Christine in Herts]

Congratulations on a good bit of deduction!

Christine

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

Thanks Christine. I don't have a lot of spare cash for certs & can't afford to get wrong ones, so it was a relief to see that it was right.