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Hi

I'm fairly new to this whole thing but did think I was starting to find my feet with free bmd and other sites but I think I must be doing something badly wrong as unless I have an 140 year old great great grandad roaming around I just can't find the death record!

Does anyone have any ideas that might be able to help me??

I'm looking for the death record of Ernest Arthur Gamwell who was born in 1870 in Hull but moved to Birmingham as a child. I have him living in Birmingham up until the 1911 census and have no inkling of his age when he died or anything!

I've searched free bmd and can't see anything!

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!
Sarah

Is this him?


Name: Ernest A Gamwell
Death Registration Month/Year: 1952
Age at death (estimated): 82
Registration district: Birmingham
Inferred County: Warwickshire
Volume: 9c
Page: 67

Snoopysue

Hi Sarah and welcome to the mad house.

Looks like it! What on EARTH was I doing wrong?!?! Thank you! Feel very sheepish now!!

Sarah

Ps. Thanks for the welcome Jimmy!

Youv'e probably already got this,
Marriages Mar 1891.
GAMWELL Ernest Arthur. Birmingham. 6d. 200.
Hooper Lizzie Annie Birmingham 6d 200.
Owen John Birmingham 6d 200.


Missing name,

HARLEY Annette Mary. Birmingham. 6d. 2_0.

snoopysue wrote:Is this him?


Name: Ernest A Gamwell
Death Registration Month/Year: 1952
Age at death (estimated): 82
Registration district: Birmingham
Inferred County: Warwickshire
Volume: 9c
Page: 67

Snoopysue

Free bmd do'snt go upto 1952.

Thanks Jimmy

I did have that information from when I was doing some research before, thank you though!

It was Annette Mary Harley that Ernest married and in the 1891 census they've got her mother and brothers and sisters living with them! I'm curious about that one!!

Thanks again!
Sarah

hi and welcome

going to move this post to General Discussion

if this is now Completed just put in the title Completed
and one of the mods when sober will move it to archived

SarahMc84 wrote:
It was Annette Mary Harley that Ernest married and in the 1891 census they've got her mother and brothers and sisters living with them! I'm curious about that one!!
Sarah

It's not uncommon for relatives to be living together. I've got a lot who are together, extended families were closer then than they are today. Sometimes they may be visiting, and sometimes their circumstances may such that they've had to move in with family - may be that her father was dead, or prison, or serving in the military.
I have some census, where people are down as visitors, and some where it looks as though they are living at that address, it depends on how good the person recording the information was.

SarahMc84 wrote:Looks like it! What on EARTH was I doing wrong?!?! Thank you! Feel very sheepish now!!

Sarah

Ps. Thanks for the welcome Jimmy!

Don't feel sheepish -- we all hit brickwalls in different ways and another pair of eyes just looks in a slightly different place and up pop those missing records!

Welcome to the forum by the way

Maths girl