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Hi, I hope someone can advise me on this.

Briefly. I've traced my great uncle Albert Edward Chaplin bn 10 Mar 1888 Redhill through to his time with the Royal Engineers (he enlisted in Aldershot 27/9/1902) through to his discharge 14/4/1912. His online army records state that he attempted suicide 19th Jan 1912 at Ashtown Lodge, Castleknock on 19th Jan 1912.

He was subsequently discharged from the army on 14 Apr 1912 as unfit for further service. At some point between his suicide attempt and discharge he was committed to Richmond Lunatic Asylum in Dublin where he died (I think on 19th May the same year). I'm not sure if this was due to injuries resulting from the original attempt of if there was a second suicide attempt.

I have discovered that the asylum records for that period are still intact and can be sourced and I've been in contact with the National Archive of Ireland. However the Freedom of Information act requires me to satisfy several conditions, all of which I can do EXCEPT that of submitting his death certificate - but I just can't find one!

I've checked the GRO indexers, Ance*try, Family Search, FindMyP*st, Irish Genealogy etc but with no joy. This is deeply frustrating as I'm so near to being able to discover more about the circumstances of his commital, treatment and death plus details of where he was buried, yet unable to access them because I cannot obtain his death registration.
 
Can anyone suggest why this might be. He was English and had been serving in the British Army in Limerick/Cork - which I'm sure was part of Grt Britain at the time. Could it be that as he'd been discharged, the army no longer had responsibility for him but if that's so who would then be responsible for registering the death. My grandfather was his named next of kin but there is nothing in family papers to throw any light on this.

Can anyone help please?

Kind regards
Spence Chaplin

Hi
Just wondered if anybody has had any experience of contacting somebody with information about 'older' siblings who had been adopted before they (the contact that is) had been born. If so any advice/suggestions about how to proceed would be appreciated.

Briefly, the story is this. Over the past few months I 've been searching on behalf of my wife's 'adopted' uncle for his birth mother. I had his birth certificate and bit by bit I've been able to piece together a family line, supported by the acquisition of birth, marriage and death certicates etc and other records. So far so good. His mother has died (1999) but as far as I can seen two of her daughters (his half-sisters) are still alive. At least I can find no trace of a reported death or obituary notice. One lives in the UK the other in New Zealand. I've found a Facebook page for the UK sister but the last post was in 2015 and there's an address contact for the NZ lady.
My quandary is how best to broach with them the issue that they have an older brother - given that they may be completely unaware of that possibility. They are both now in their seventies and for all I know may have health issues so I wouldn't want to cause any undue shock, unhappiness etc.
Has anybody had a similar experience and if so how have they dealt with it? Many thanks

Hi, I've just traced a relative living in Austerfield on the 1911 census.
Fred 'White' is living with his wife Kate, daughter Elsie, son Frank and new born daughter Nellie at Partridge Hill, Austerfield (the enumerator gives Partridge Hill Cottages)
My feeling is that he has given a false surname (not sure why he would have done that) for himself and his family and I would like to know which particular electoral roll I could check to try and get to the bottom of things.
My contention of his 'alias' is based on a little guesswork but so many other details in the census are similar that I feel it is highly likely I have the right person. I can give more details but essentially I'm asking for advice on which other local sources could help corroborate who lived at that address between approx 1909 and 1914/15. Many thanks Spence Chaplin