Died Chiswick Hospital 1907 unable to locate a death

[cuddley28]

Hi everyone,

After 18months of searching for a death for James Henderson, l found a newspaper article on FindmyPast, I couldn't locate anything on Ancestry so went reading the newspapers, I found an article in an Aberdeen Scotland paper obviously placed there by a family member, and the place he was born.

All it says is: Henderson: At Chiswick Hospital, London James Milne Henderson, plumber, third son of William Henderson of 80 Hutcheon Street, Aberdeen.

Did the Chiswick Hospital have another name, and where will i find a death certificate, Ive looked long and hard.

He was born James Mather Milne Henderson on the 22 February 1862 the paper is dated the 30th March 1907, and called the People's Journal.

James parents were William Henderson and Isabella Adam.

Would appreciate your thoughts and any help you can offer.

TIA

Jennifer

[confused73]

Think it was Hammersmith Hospital, I cannot recall there being a hospital in Chiswick.

[KGarrad]

Chiswick would fall under the Brentford Registration District.
Hammersmith would fall under the Fulham Registration District.

The only death that might fit (from FreeBMD) is:

December qtr 1905
Fulham district     vol 1a, page 227

Henderson, James       age 51

[confused73]

Agree with you KG, but my family who lived in Chiswick always got sent to Hammersith Hospital, again  not sure there was a hospital in  Brentford, may be it closed by the time I lived in Chiswick.

[KGarrad]

Don't forget that a death is registered in the Registration District in which the death occurred!

Not where the deceased was living.

So that death I found would fit with a death in Hammersmith Hospital?

[groom]

The dates are way out though - why wait 2 years before putting an obituary in the paper and his age doesn't agree. That one was 51 in 1905, Jennifer's James would have been 43.

[ReadyDale]

Chiswick would fall under the Brentford Registration District.
Hammersmith would fall under the Fulham Registration District.

The only death that might fit (from FreeBMD) is:

December qtr 1905
Fulham district     vol 1a, page 227

Henderson, James       age 51

Apart from the dates being (on the face of it) out, even if Chiswick Hospital should read Hammersmith Hospital, then this would be Hammersmith RD, not Fulham. The hospital in Fulham was Fulham Hospital (now the site of Charing Cross Hospital)

[KGarrad]

Hammersmith Registration District was created in 1915
Created from part of Fulham RD.

I know the date and age are out, but I can't see a better fit?

And, if there is no date of that newspaper snippet, maybe it took the family a year or so to get the news back to Scotland?

[cuddley28]

The dates are way out though - why wait 2 years before putting an obituary in the paper and his age doesn't agree. That one was 51 in 1905, Jennifer's James would have been 43.

I have to agree with you groom, i can accept the couple of years that are common with certificates, but 8 years......hmmm.  There is nothing that really stands out.

My other question is is it possible that when it says Chiswick Hospital that it was a convalescent home or a poor house/work house.