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Hi Malyon - OK, she is registered as Viola..... Try that, she's there. My family requested a copy of her birth certificate and it couldn't be found. Hence, no true DOB is known - all we know is that SHE thought she was over 100 and she also said her name was Viola (although all other papers say Violet). When she died, I guess the people registering her death called her Viola.

so she never married again to hale

VIOLA ROSE L HALL

England & Wales deaths 1837-2007

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Country

England

County

London

Year

2000

Birth Year

1899

Event Quarter

3

District

LAMBETH

Malyon, The death is registered in both Hale and Hall surnames.

Malyon, Violet's history is unknown and sketchy. Having spoke to my mother about it, she thought the whole Hall/Hale thing was a typo and was quite surprised when I found it was genuine.

I'm not sure who would have registered her death - but they obviously weren't 100% sure about her name (both forename and surname).

Thank you for looking.

Lisa ...........

the name of the informant has to be on the death certificate.

I'm not surprised that her name might be wrong ..............

the only information that one can trust to be correct on a death certificate are:-

date of death
place of death
cause of death
date of registration
name and address of informant
name and address of doctor

ALL other information is only what is known to the informant ................. and our ancestors gave wrong information, accidentally or deliberately, even to their spouses.

We can all tell you tales of spouses who told porkies about their age, usually because they were much older or younger than their spouses. They changed their name(s) because they didn't like the one(s) they were given.

Both my maternal grandparents gave the wrong ages on their marriage certificates ......... they both added about 2 years to their real ages, but that still made them both under 21. Not only that, but grandfather maintained to all his children and grandchildren that his birthday was December 25, and if he said a year, it was 1884 or 1885.

Nope ........... he was born January 9 1885. He was baptised 29 December 1886, with his younger sister, so maybe his parents told him he was born on December 25. Who knows!!!

But not even his son who registered his death knew about the wrong birth date and year until he found a birth certificate pushed to the back of a drawer.


You should buy that death certificate to find out what is actually written on there ......... but the informant will probably be someone to do with the nursing home.

London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965

1929: 16 Colls Road, Camberwell
Ernest Edward Hale jnr
Violet Hale
Thomas Hinch
Cissie Truelove
Elizabeth Jane Truelove
John William Truelove

Looks like Ernest's father was living next door. Ernest and Violet were not listed at this address in 1930.

Completely agree, SylvanianCanada............. people seemed to make it up as they went along. Middle names as forenames, names being misheard (Emma became Helena in one census return). Makes it all the more exciting!

AustinQ - thank you! So, Dad lived next door? Blimey - nothing surprises me. And they lived with a bunch of other people. AND interestingly, Violet's daughter from her marriage to Albert isn't listed.

Thanks again.

Lisa- the daughter wouldn't be listed as she wasn't old enough to vote in 1929!- but she may well be living there.

Oh yes! Of course. (Shakes head).