Deceased uncle - 1920's. Can u help Dot?

[10ClarionSt]

My dads' brother died when a young boy. He was called Bernard. I went to the local registrar to try and look for details of his death but they said I didn't have enough information. I don't mind looking through the records but they wouldn't let me.

I'm hoping Dot Hawkes will give me a few pointers. I know you're good at this Dot. Can you help?

[shineybomb]

I assume you don't have access to anything like ancestry.com? If you know the year he died I could do a look-up for you? That would give you the reference so you could apply for a copy of the death certificate from the records office. Also need surname obviously

[Sammy Snake]

You can look at the death indexes on Ancestry for free. You have to register but don't need to pay to view the BMD indexes.

Sam x

[shineybomb]

Sam's right - I'm having a daft moment

[dot.hawkes]

Hiya
have you any recollection of your Dad telling you where he might have been buried? i am assuming there was a church funeral service and so it may have been in the local paper including a death announcement, and there would likely have been a burial. do you have any surviving Aunts or uncles who may have any info on a graveyard? Ths burial register at the church will be useful to tie into a death registartion. most churches do have a grave book also, dentifying the burial plots in relation to the graveyard plan.

Many children were buried with grandparents and so if you have the grave site for your gtandparents the boy may well have been buried there too.

It does not always follow that there is a gravestone or memorial but the burial register or grave book will identify the plot.

Once you have the date of death from the register you can get the death certificate from the local register office and this will give you the date and place of death, the cause of death, who regfistered the death and the deceased age at death. This is also included on some of the civil death indexes and also the place of birth, which can vary depending on who registered the death , some people give the registration district as place of birth based on birth certificate info, whioch can be different to the actual town of birth which may be a sub-district of a reg. district.

i am tiored or i could ramble on but hope that helps abit too, the above answers are also a start.

[dot.hawkes]

the registers for heywood are supposed to be divided between Rochdale and Bury but if you have his name it is so easy to search for him email me the name at [email protected] if you want and I will find him in a few minutes, give me a 5 year either side date too

[spudqueen]

Rochdale have a very good local family studies centre, diagonally across from the town hall. They have the births, marriages and deaths registers in there.

[dot.hawkes]

found him for you and the email is on its way, poor little lad only lived about 9 months, registered at Oldham 1933 birth, died easrly 1934. very sad.

[spudqueen]

Hi 10ClarionSt, isn't Dot great finding your Dads brother for you? No I don't live in Rochdale (near Preston actually) but am tracing my family tree and one branch originates from Rochdale so I've been there a few times. Was last in Rochdale last Monday but only to the cemetery that time.