Why can't I find Francis James Hughes death? Tips appreciated

[isobelw]

Commonwealth War Graves have a civilian death in Bootle on 3rd May 1941 of a Francis Hughes age 49. Right age but a long way from Middlesex.
Isobel

[Girl Guide]

This is the death registration for the Bootle one that Isobel found:-

Deaths Jun 1941   
Hughes    Francis    49    Bootle    8b   439

[jonw65]

They seem to be in Islington after the war, to the fifties? (London electoral registers)

[jc26red]

Has anyone looked up Railway employee records yet? 
(Sorry my subs have just elapsed )

[LDaw]

I had taken a look at the Bootle guy, after the CWGC tip, but failed to find anything to link or discount him.

The men who died in Coventry and Lothingland had other records I could trace that suggest they are different men.

Thanks for the London Registers info, I hadn't been able to find that on Ancestry (I seem to have lost my ability to navigate that site properly).

I didn't know there was railway employees info.  I hope it's something Anecestry has and I'll take a look later today.


When I previously had a subscription the 1939 Register wasn't commonly available.  Does anyone know if it's possible to do a trace according to the address only?

Thanks. (I'm loving the team element!)

[Girl Guide]

You can trace through addresses via the electoral registers.  You won't be able to do the war years 1940 to 1944/45 as none were done then.

Not quite sure when they restarted after the war.

[jonw65]

9 Granville Road, Wood Green (Southgate) in 1939
Restarted in 1945 when they are in Islington

[josey]

Do you know which railway company he worked for?

[ChrissieL]

Ancestry has a death of a Francis J Hughes in Sept Qtr 1966 aged 74 born in 1892. The death is in the Claro Registration District West Riding of Yorkshire

ancestry also has his marriage date as 24 March 1913 to Mildred Violet Dorothy Barnes. Witnesses are Ernest Richardson and Beatrice Hughes