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Would appreciate advice/suggestions please. I have spent the last few days on research deciding which certs to send for before they went up. I sent for a few but of course this morning I have remembered one that I really want. The trouble is, I'm prepared to pay the increase but I really want to try and get the right one and there is a choice of 2.
It's the death of William Heaps.
In 1861 William Heaps (as Heafes) is a widower aged 56 living with the Quintons and some of his children in Ilkeston Derbyshire. In 1871 William Heaps age is given as sixty something (unreadable), he's a widower living with his daughter and her children & the man she is living with!! in Clay cross Derbyshire (which comes under Chesterfield). In 1881 I can't find him but his daughter and the children from 1871 are in the workhouse (he isn't) but could just be hiding in the census.
I have 2 choices - A death in March 1874 which is in the right area (Chesterfield) but age 75 and should be more like 69. Or a death March 1885 aged 81 in Shardlow. This one is the right age and Shardlow does cover the area where his wife died in 1855, but why is he there?
It's the death of William Heaps.
In 1861 William Heaps (as Heafes) is a widower aged 56 living with the Quintons and some of his children in Ilkeston Derbyshire. In 1871 William Heaps age is given as sixty something (unreadable), he's a widower living with his daughter and her children & the man she is living with!! in Clay cross Derbyshire (which comes under Chesterfield). In 1881 I can't find him but his daughter and the children from 1871 are in the workhouse (he isn't) but could just be hiding in the census.
I have 2 choices - A death in March 1874 which is in the right area (Chesterfield) but age 75 and should be more like 69. Or a death March 1885 aged 81 in Shardlow. This one is the right age and Shardlow does cover the area where his wife died in 1855, but why is he there?
I never thought to check for other William Heaps. I suppose someone may have got his age badly wrong.
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