SOUTHSEA - Electoral roll late 40s / 50s

[rosie99]

Civilian casualties are listed on the CWGC website.

1939 registration might help to locate him, it is due out soon 

[yelkcub]

This is a scan of the photo I found - no indication of date, just the Wimbourne Road address written on the reverse. Fred was 53-ish on his discharge from the service.

[rosie99]

Just realised 1939 won't help 

I wonder if newspapers covered Jane's death. 

                 

[yelkcub]

It's been my experience so far in family history research that rarely if ever are deaths (apart from those of prominent members of the newspaper's catchment) covered in the press. Possibly the only way of finding out whether this Jane I Horsfall was, in fact, Fred's wife / widow is by ordering the death certificate. I'm wondering if there are cemetery records available for the Southsea area.

[rosie99]

Death June qtr 1959   
Mary Moran age 92   
Portsmouth    6b   401

Probate
Mary Moran of 38 Wimborne Road, Milton, Portsmouth widow died 17 May 1959 at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham - Probate to solicitors David Childs & Oliver Tyeth Parker

[antiquesam]

The problem is it can be a life sentence running through a year's worth of obituaries on microfiche unless you are very lucky, or can narrow the timescale a little. I can lookup up some of the cemeteries, but seem to remember being told that some records were lost.

[yelkcub]

The Mary Moran whose death you found would have been born 1867. FreeBMD records a Mary Williams born Portsea in that year - that's investigating the assumption that MM may have been Isabella's sister.

[yelkcub]

Dec Q 1918 - Mary Williams married Thomas F Moran, Portsmouth

[antiquesam]

This still doesn't help with Fred, and who was William Thomas Cooper (the military man)?