Genealogy Chat

Please can anybody find the details of the following deaths. No one in the family can remember their full details. Harry Peace, died abt 1953 aged 3yrs old. Marie Peace, died abt 1949 aged 2yrs old. Thanks, xx

have you looked on 1837?

I haven't subscribed to it. Would I find the info easily on there?

depends how good you are at looking! The thing is, you need to look at various quarters of the years and each quarter costs to look at , so it could be quite costly unless you can be more specific

Got some credits galloping towards expiry: PEACE Harry 3 Sept 1953 Leeds 2c 223

PEACE Marie 1 Mar 1949 Leeds 2c 445 Use the references to order the death certificates from http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp at a cost of £7 each. Liz x

You might consider if they are worth it. They will give you name of informant,cause of death and date but not much else. Bob

Thanks all, The dates are a great find, thank you. Harry Peace was tragically killed in a road accident and I am interested in researching exactly what happened etc. Anybody know how I might find any old coroners reports etc??

'The dates are a great find'... Errrmmm, forgive me if I have misunderstood your last post, but I will clarify the references: PEACE Harry 3 Sept 1953 Leeds 2c 223 The 3 is his age, not the date, and Sept is the quarter in 1953 that the death was registered - ie Jul/Aug/Sept. 2c is volume number, 223 is page. These are the references you will need when ordering the cert from the GRO. Likewise, for Marie, 1 Mar means she was 1 year old, and the death was registered in the Jan/Feb/Mar quarter of 1949. The exact date of death will be on the certificate. Apologies if I have either misled or misunderstood you. Liz

That had thrown me! Thanks for clarifying things Liz. I'll order Harry's cert to start with as I'd like to know more of what happened in the accident. Andy x

I agree, at first glance, they do look exactly like dates don't they? I will be more careful in future how I put references down. Liz