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Discovered Joseph died in Sheffield in 1963 aged 53.

Discovered that Joseph died in Sheffield in 1963.Must of been born 1909/10 as age given is 53.

Also discovered the reason for the 7 year gap-he went to Australia for several years.Anyone know how to view passenger records

Hello Paul,

How do you know that death is correct?

Where did the information re him being in Australia come from?

His son-Ronnie Davies,visited yesterday & told me his father died in Sheffield in 1963-64,& my 82 year old father told me his wife was left with the children when he left for Australia.Son Kenneth later emigrated there & was killed in an accident.Daughter Joan also emigrated.Son Bob died two weeks ago and Ronnie is now trying to piece together his family history.I've offered to help as his mum became my step grandmother.

I've now got the marriage certificate.Joseph & Nellie were married on the 1st February 1933 at Dalton St.Marys Church.Josephs name spelt without the E,although he signed it DAVIES.He is given as aged 23,His profession is given as A/B R.Navy (able seaman Royal Navy ???) His address is given as :-HMS Royal Oak (?) Chatham.His father is given as Thomas Davis (deceased),Labourer.The witnesses were Samuel Turner & Robert Cope.He's a bachelor.
Nellie Clark given as aged 24,a spinster of 65,Fell Croft,Dalton-in-Furness.Now looking for info from 1939 register,any Naval,wartime records-& 1911 census info.

Found his service record -JX 126458,but it gives his POB as Dalton-in-Furness (where I live),but I can't find a birth record? DOB given as 27th April,1910-which fits in exactly?

Presumably this is the death you mean??

Joseph Davies
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Joseph Davies
Birth Date: abt 1910
Date of Registration: Jun 1963
Age at Death: 53
Registration district: Sheffield
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume: 2d
Page: 126

That's the one,yes.Really struggling to find out his POB,& mother to go any further back.I've got one of his sons birth certificates now.In 1946 he was a rigger in the steelworks in Barrow-in-Furness & living at 25,Thornton Park,Dalton-in-Furness.