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Can anyone help with a mystery please.Ideas still

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 22 Aug 2006 20:25

Have you thought about buying this death cert? Perhaps the informant's name will be of use? England & Wales, Death Index: 1984-2004 Record about James Townsend Name: James Townsend Birth Date: 12 May 1923 Death Registration Month/Year: Jun 1984 Age at death (estimated): 61 Registration District: Worksop Inferred County: Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire Volume: 8 Page: 1387 Rose

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Glen In Tinsel Knickers Report 22 Aug 2006 20:30

Thankyou and good thinking! I was going to apply for his army record,but i didn't have a birth or death date so couldn't do it.I only got the birth cert on Saturday and didn't look for a death entry.(Death cert required to prove death needed for army records anyway.) I'm just a bit bothered that the birth cert i have might be for the wrong James,but a lack of alternative births makes it look possible,based on the information i have. Glen

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 22 Aug 2006 20:34

Glen, Does the death in the Worksop area fit in with what you know? Rose

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Glen In Tinsel Knickers Report 22 Aug 2006 20:39

I couldn't honestly say one way or the other. The Marjorie mentioned did keep tabs on him,and she knows he fathered at least twelve children,(but didn't know about me),and i have never spoken to her or had any contact. I do know the circumstances around his death (basically drink related,((he was an alcoholic and had been for many years)) he died where he fell,blind drunk).I doubt the cert would say as much though. Glen

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 22 Aug 2006 21:16

If you're lucky there might have been an autopsy. I'm sure the results of that would reveal cirrhosis of the liver etc. Rose

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Glen In Tinsel Knickers Report 22 Aug 2006 21:19

Worth a bash for sure. Thanks again Glen

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 22 Aug 2006 22:41

Another thought: Marjorie could be Margery. Rose