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Hi there I hope that someone can help. This is my 1st post so please be gentle.

I am trying to find a registration of a death for Allan Eric Kimber. Details I have so far are:
1911 Census age 4 Allan Erie Kimber Gillingham, Dorset. Father Cyrus age 39 Mother Lilian Fletcher age 44.
Jan - Mar 1907 Birth Reg
Jan - Mar 1932 Married Beatrice Hix in Bristol.

The family story is that Allan Eric Kimber died abt 1937, as told by Beatrice to her son who was age abt 4 at the time of his supposed death. Beatrice was known to tell a few porkies.

I have found another Allan E Kimber marrage in 1961 to a molineaux in Wolverhampton but that would make him 54, not impossible and if he were still allive then he would be abt 105, less possible I think.

Can someone die in the UK without the death being registered?

Thanks

Hello stew909,

Firstly, welcome to the forum - everyone is very very gentle on this forum.

The following letter is in the April edition of Family Tree magazine, by Paul Ogden, Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths, Wigan and Leigh Register Office:-

"If no body is found then a death cannot be registered by a registrar. For a death to be registered a cause of death has to be recorded by a doctor"™s medical certificate or a coroner"™s post mortem or inquest. All three require an examination of the deceased"™s body.

If no body is found then no death would be registered, even if it is likely that the person has died. Hence many coal miners trapped underground would never have been registered or would have been registered years later when the bodies were recovered. People being declared dead is a completely different matter."

Hope this helps.

Thanks for that, its a thought. I will have to find out what his occupation was

he could of up and emergrated and she made up the story he died to stop any arkward questions later ?