How to find out when someone died.

mancitychick

You may have tried this but......Have you tried googling her name and town where she lived. If I google my Dad's name & town he lived in at his death it brings up a link to his obituary in his local paper.

looby75

mancitychick wrote: »

You may have tried this but......Have you tried googling her name and town where she lived. If I google my Dad's name & town he lived in at his death it brings up a link to his obituary in his local paper.

thanks but we've already tried that too, it didn't come up with anything

RAS

Try www.192.com or www.pipl.com and put in her name(s) and postcode.

You may be able to pick up her listing on the electoral roll and that will often give an approximate age.

Alternative find the marriage to grandpa and that will give you her age in a particular year. if you them ask the Registrar where she died they will look for a death with an approximate age over a 5 year span.

Mojisola

The marriage cert is a good idea.

It's hard to understand why your sister can't find her in the records.

looby75

fantastic idea about the marriage cert! We know the exact date they got married so that should be helpful.

Thanks for the links too, hadn't thought of searching for her that way, we know her last address too. Wow I can see why people get so hooked on genealogy it's like trying to work out a big puzzle and once you get your teeth into it it's hard to let go lol

RAS

I have spent too much time chasing people across centuries.

Once you have her age, try to check for her birth - modern death cert registers include the DOB.

daska

Anyone looking for my nanna would struggle to find her. We registered her death with the name and maiden name we knew her by - which I later discovered were not legally her real names! Not only that but her birthday was wrong as well - although we had aware that her dob was registered incorrectly as 6 days before the date she was actually born. The first clue we had about the names was when we found an old passport in what was left of the photos and letters and wondered why she had someone elses...?!

Dunroamin

looby75 wrote: »

unfortunatly not, she was cremated we don't know what happened to her ashes but there's no plaque or headstone for her.

Do you know which crematorium?

What about tracing her sons?

looby75

Dunroamin wrote: »

Do you know which crematorium?

What about tracing her sons?

not sure which crem but might be able to find out.

We have written to her sons last known addresses but so far they haven't replied.

pug_in_a_bed

If you want to pm me her name, maiden and married name and husbands name plus wedding date , or as much as you know name wise, I'll have a look, I use ancestry and a load other sites for family history