Genealogy Chat

Is this possible?

Searching for a Susan Milner born 1st Dec 1950.
There is a death registered for a susan milner in 1991 in Hammersmith. But the birth date on the death records is 1st Dec 1907...how accurate are the death records?

I have just seen another thread of yours.
Any death should be in her married name.

The lady in Hammersmith was aged 83 when she died. I know death records can be out sometimes but I would have thought the informant wouldn't have got it that much out!!! Can't see a death in the married name prior to 2005 either.

There are thirteen matches for this name and year of birth on this site
Liz

In 1991 proof of birth is required to register a death.

Not sure what you mean Kay - my father died recently and we didn't take any prrof of birth date as far as I can remember.
jan

From the government website

When registering a death, you'll need to take the following:

•medical certificate of the cause of death (signed by a doctor)


And if available:

•birth certificate
•marriage/civil partnership certificates
•NHS Medical Card


Information you’ll need to tell the registrar:

•the person’s full name at time of death
•any names previously used, including maiden surname
•the person’s date and place of birth (town and county if born in the UK and country if born abroad)
•their last address
•their occupation
•the full name, date of birth and occupation of a surviving spouse or civil partner
•whether they were receiving a state pension or any other state benefit

You only need to take the birth certificate if available. Which is good - when my 91 year old grandmother shuffles off we'd have a problem as her birth certificate was lost and we'd have to try and get one from Tanzania!!! I would think a lot of elderly people no longer have their birth certificates.

Hi Jan,

His date of birth would have been registerd with NHS,and with his doctors,so can be checked against DWP for any state pension,

Mark,

You've had several threads on this since 2007. How do you know she's dead? In another thread you say she married Philip Warford.

Rose

Both her parents remarried a few years later. Looks like she has a half sibling who is on this site. Do you have this info?

Rose

Have you checked the matches in search trees
Liz

Rose,

She married Philip Warford in 1970, he passed away in 2001.

According to Southport, her nhs number has not been used since 1990, but there is no record of any remarriages or deaths.

Mark

If you obtain the death cert. it will give you the name and address of the informant, which could be a relative
Liz

Have you contacted her half brother?

Philip married again in 1982.

Rose

Can you tell us everything you know? You don't give much info. in your initial posting. I discovered more by searching on your old threads.

Rose

Rose,

Yeah I contacted her half brother, she left home when he was 9, he remembers her being there but knows nothing of what happened to her, she moved from yorkshire to the west midlands when she married.

Liz,

Yeah, his death was registered by his son, from a marriage prior to Susan, he was 25 years older than she was.

Rose,

She was born Susan Milner, 1st Dec 1950
Parents John D N Milner and Marion (Stones)
Doncaster

Married 'Philip Warford, May 1970
In West Bromwich

Philip passed away in 2001, death registered by a son from a previous marriage.
This was in Gloucestershire.

Both her parents are deceased.

Mark

If her NHS number hasn't been used in 20 years perhaps she went abroad?

Rose

Yeah, that's the only real possibility I suppose.

How do you get NHS info. like that? Can they tell you where it was last used?

Rose