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Could this have been a murder?

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Joe

Joe Report 27 May 2011 11:25

I see, thanks.

But on his daughter Ethel's marriage cert it does say " Father - Deceased".

Could it really be?

Ok, I will press on in the search for his death.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 27 May 2011 11:08

Not unusual for couples to split and the wife claim to be a widow on next census. Saving face rather than saying her husband had left her

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 27 May 2011 11:03

Have you found the rest of his family in 1901 ?

Depending on his occupation he might have been out of his usual area when he died

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

Joe

Joe Report 27 May 2011 10:52


My maternal great great grandad Joseph Carter (Manchester) is shown as 'deceased ' on the marriage certificate of my great grandmother in 1903.

So he was dead by then, but alive and kicking in the 1891 census, where he's shown aged 30, born 1861.

So, sometime between 1891 and 1903 he has died, but disappeared.

Could he have been murdered and the body disposed of, and therefore gone unregistered? Was it compulsory to register deaths? Perhaps they buried him but forgot to register it?

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