Genealogy Chat

Louise I'm off to Edinburgh on the 10th and I can look for that death certificate if you want. Rachel

Ahh, I see...lol. I guessed it was Land of something. I like that - Land of Yips A new cockney rhyming slang for us Tipsters! Louise :-))

Don't know why I still say it really, Louise............. tips board (Land of Yips), sentimentally nostalgic that's me, and I was never a refugee from it. :-). Just feel like one sometimes Merry - sorry about the cough........ yes, take care on gen!! :-)

Joy Being nosey I know but what is L of Y - I have tried to figure it out but can't (probably something really simple/obvious) Louise :-))

Thanks Georgina for that information. Shame a few other relatives couldn't have passed over in Scotland as it would be a big help! Louise

Hello Joy, Still coughing! Have just been reading the ''soon to self-destruct???'' General Board. Merry

Ah, that's better, back in the L of Y!!! :-) How are you now?

Louise on the early scottish death certs it gives the name & age of the deceased, cause of death, address, wifes/husbands name and both parents names if known. I havn't had one past 1930 so hopefully they are all the same no matter what year they died. Georgina.

Oh Merry! I know that ggggrrrrrrr feeling so well. You find that my a miracle the parish you want is on the IGI and then you find your blinky relatives died, got born or married before or after the dates on the IGI. You find a free census on the web and realise its the one before your family moved into the village. Yes, the records office have bastardy bonds...except for the parish where your illegitimate gt grannie was born. Or you have a blinky relative with a v. common name and there are so many Robert Brownings (not the poet) that could be yours you can't choose! GGGGrrrrrrrrrrrrr! nell

Thanks Merry. I haven't got round to looking for his death yet and wondered if I might shed some light on a brickwall on that branch. Cheers, Louise

I should let someone else answer, but from what I remember (!!) marriage cert shows BOTH parents inc mum's maiden name and so does someone's death cert (that's if the informant KNOWS all that info!!!) Merry

Can I but in please? My grandfather's brother died in Scotland (or so I've been told) c1945. What extra information do you get on the death certificates there? Also his son married there so would there be additional information on the marriage certificate to what you get in England? Louise

Well if they were, Kate, it didn't work, as I spent all my units looking at things that turned out not to be the right people and now I'm never going to have those lovely bits and pieces that show up in Scottish records that everyone is always going on about! I never would have thought to look for an English marriage, but for detail on the Scottish birth cert!! Merry

Perhaps they were trying to save you the cost of Scotland's People credits. Kate.

LOL Georgina! Ireland????.....that IS worse than this lot then!!! Merry

Merry most of my rellies on my fathers side were scottish and it's been great finding them on scotlands people, but then in 1902 most of them upped and left and went to Ireland (some to Canada) if your's went to Ireland then I wish you the best of luck finding them. Georgina.

Well my lot were born in England but claim Scottish births,Berwick on Tweed,definately still English for the time in question,and one of them a master mariner. He never appears on a census from youth till he retires,i often wonder how he had a family or how he found the rest of them with a migration of 300+ miles,and three counties within 3 census nights. The other line also moved,but much later,Norfolk to the big smoke and Lancashire,depending which train they caught. And they all appear to be teachers or railway staff. Glen

ABERDEEN !! you trying to tell me something ? My lot aint got the stamina to live that long - though porridge may do the trick !

Maybe yours are still alive from 1834, Joe??? I think it was probably warmer in Poplar than Aberdeen? Merry

You are lucky you have got somewhere. My relly married in Stepney 1834 and aint been seen since - seemed to avoid all the censuses by being on a BOAT somewhere and family rumoured that he could have come from Scotland but where ??? Scot people show so many possibles and I dunno which is which cos I dont know his proper age - marriage cert shows FULL - all part of the Fun, Fun, fun ................ cant even find his death which would show something .... err .... possibly.