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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] How to?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:10:48 +0100
In-Reply-To: <002401c65f83$508fbe70$0301a8c0@chrissy>


In message <002401c65f83$508fbe70$>, chrissy
<> writes
>Listers
>I havn t worked with details so recent so I am not sure as to what to do
>Arthur William Sullivan was alive 1948 but dead by 1954
This is a *comparatively* short search in any of the commercial index
databases for GRO indexes (1837online, bmdindexes etc). The indexes
include his age at death (as stated, not always exactly right).
>(Thornton St Brixton)
>his age ? well his youngest son was 25 in 1948
>I want his death cert ...hoping to provide us with name of wife
>parents and place of birth

You would be unlucky there, unless the wife was the informant of the
death (in which case you get her initials or forename, M A Sullivan,
Mary Sullivan and widow (which would be the same if, say, his mother
gave the information) You do not get parents or place of birth or even
date of birth then in an English death certificate.
The age at death may lead you directly to his birth registration,
which WILL name his parents. The marriage certificate will name his
father, his wife and her father.
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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