Bowman - Calder, or Halifax, West Yorkshire

[groom]

Not a lot of hope for finding relatively recent divorces according to this

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/divorces/

[Cwellan CoDown]

I think I may have found a death - the DoB is exactly right, although I have nothing linking her to Sheffield. and I would like to find something before ordering the death certificate

Anyone able to help with an obituary, or wills search etc (I am used to Irish research, not as sure on English, and searches on Ancestry aren't showing much!)

Name
Edith Hooper

Death Age: 78
Birth Date:20 Mar 1911
Registration Date: Jul 1989
Registration district: Sheffield
Inferred County: South Yorkshire
Volume 3 Page 1019

[groom]

Given that it's the exact date of birth, it would be quite a coincidence if it wasn't her. Don't forget that Sheffield would be where she died, not necessarily when she lived - she could have died in hospital.

I can't see a will on the probate search  https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate

[Cwellan CoDown]

Thanks for the links for the will search

I did think of it being a hospital, but Sheffield is not the nearest hospital to Queensbury, both Bradford and Leeds would be much closer, and from what limited contact we had with the family, there was no mention of her leaving Queensbury