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Thanks for letting us know, Kathryn.

Good to know you've made contact with James.

Deaths on find My Past, Ancestry only officially go up to around 2007 from GRO indexes. After that, I think you'll find they are taken from death notices / Burial and cremation records, Find a Grave, probate (FMP), Burial records etc. by someone trawling through those records.

You'll find that the format of the transcript is different for the later ones with no district or Register numbers, rather partial post codes for a death record or it's a probate record transcript and they go almost up to current date.

So you won't find every death on the sites.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong about that.

Good afternoon all, just an update to let you know that I've found Mary and yes she has indeed passed. I've also managed to locate her husband whom I am now in contact with.

Thank you all for your help etc, very much appreciated.

Kindest regards,

Kathryn

Will do ArgyllGran.

Kathryn

Feel free to help with any query on any GR board!
Most of us have subs to either Ancestry or FMP.

PS. I have an Ancestry Subscription if anyone wants something looked up.

Kathryn

Thanks ErikaH for the information you have provided. I'll bear what you say in mind in future. I have had contact with Jenny, she is a cousin but was long lost until recently.

Kindest,

Kathryn

The woman looking for you

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/living_relatives/thread/1400888

Ancestry has to be paid for!

The GRO index is FREE and more up-to-date

On another tack, hope you won't take umbrage if I point out that if Mary (Tidman) hadn't died, your posting on here of her actual DoB could have left her open to identity theft - and be in contravention of site guidelines.
Something to bear in mind ;-) ;-)

Hi Shirley. There is an England and Wales Death Index 1989-2021 on Ancestry. I have found more recent deaths on this site up to 2021 but not Mary's. If you haven't tried already then give it a go.

Kindest,

Kathryn

Kathryn

The death won’t show on ancestry as it’s too recent

My hubby passed in 2015 and his death doesn’t show on ancestry!

Hello all,

Am off to bed now as it's been a really long day for me.

If anyone messages then I will reply in the morning. Thank you one and all for your help. Very much appreciated. Just hope I can find James.

Kindest regards,

Kathryn

The Epsom address is a retirement flat in a block of several such flats.

I've PM'd you a link to the flats.
You could try writing to the management, in the hope that they know James's new address, and might forward a letter from you to him.

Not sure why the death isn't showing up on Ancestry in

All England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2021 results for Mary Newman.

Thank you for this, I wasn't thinking straight. Am getting tired now, been up far too long. I guess I'll have to keep looking for James. He's a lot younger than Mary having been born in 1963 and she in 1949. Am hoping that he's still alive and that I'm able to find him.

Thank you again for all your help. I'll leave this thread open in case anyone can find James for me.

Kindest regards,

Kathryn

Unfortunately, as Mary died in 2021, the address on the death cert will presumably just be the Epsom one which was sold in 2022.

Hello ArgyllGran, I've just ordered the Certificate. This is definitely the Mary I'm looking for. Hopefully it will give me the name of the informant whom I hope is James and an address. Thank you so much. I know it's sad but at least I now know. Always too late. She was born the same year as myself.

Kindest regards,

Kathryn

The death shows on the GRO site:
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content

You have to register, but it's free to search births and deaths.

Hello ErikaH, can you please private message me. I think I know who this is.

Kindest,

Kathryn

Hello ArgyllGran, thank you, I think this is the Mary I'm looking for. I can't find the death on Ancestry, would you please be so kind as to let me know where you found this. I looked under England and Wales Death Index 1989-2021 bit it's not showing up.

It might be helpful if I could find James being that he was married to Mary.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kindest,

Kathryn