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The attachment is an extract from a 1900 New Jersey "Report of Death" showing the forename? of the deceased's mother. Any suggestions as to what her forename may have been will be welcome because there is a good chance that she was my great-great-grandmother.

The deceased is known to have born in Co. Roscommon.  The full Report of Death shows his father's name as James Higgins.

16 Branston Road, Moston U.D. is shown on a birth certificate as my late mother's/the informant's home address in January 1937.  I would like to find out who was living at that address in 1939 but -
to "Browse this collection" [the 1939 Register] at ancestry.co.uk, the Enumeration District is needed and when Lancashire is chosen as the county, Moston U.D. is not listed under "Borough, Urban District or Rural District".

Is it possible that 16 Branston Road was in Chadderton U.D. in 1939?

I have browsed up to page 15 of 32 in enumeration district NTSA and  there are many more enumeration districts in Chadderton U.D. after NTSA.  I will go through the lot if I have to but would prefer not to waste my time.

To my delight, I have now found my great-grandfather's date of death from the Calendar of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1920 at FamilySearch.  It seems that John Biggins died on 11 June 1905 and that probate was granted to his son in 1907.

He was on the 1901 census but gone by 1911.  I have never been able to find a registration of his death from 1901 to 1911 in Ballinrobe, where I would have expected to find it, or anywhere in Ireland and still cannot.

Has anyone any idea how the son could get probate granted in 1905 without proof that his father was dead?

Would some form of proof other than a death certificate have been acceptable?

Good Morning Afternoon!
The photo on the right is of Mary O'Malley Cunningham who was born in Ireland in about 1865.  She is not known to have ever left Ireland but two of her daughters [and one of her sons] emigrated to St. Louis, Missouri.  The daughters who emigrated were born in 1891 and 1898.  No other relatives are known to have gone to St. Louis.

The young woman in the photo on the left, which appears to have been taken in St. Louis, has not yet been identified.

I recently submitted the "St. Louis" photo to Rootschat for opinions on when it was taken and how old the woman in it was at the time.  One reply offered an opinion that the photo was taken in the 1890s and four helpful people provided expert restorations.

I have now begun to wonder if the "St. Louis" photo could possibly be of Mary O'Malley Cunningham in her younger days.  Does anyone else think that the photos could be of the same woman at different ages?

My mother was born in Ireland in late 1912.  She was married twice in Lancashire.  She died in 2009. 
Recently, my sisters and I were astonished to hear that she had had a baby who died in infancy about ten years before her first marriage. 
My mother's story of her early years in England was that she had first arrived from Ireland in 1932 "the year of the Eucharistic Congress" and spent two years in Oldham, lodging with a seamstress called Mrs. Fleming and working in the Ferranti factory before returning to Ireland in 1934.  According to her, she came back to England in 1936 to work as a nurse, in Dudley Hospital [midlands] to begin with and around Liverpool after the outbreak of war.
What we were astonished to hear, at a family Reunion in Ireland, was that our mother had been sent away to England because she was pregnant and unmarried.  Apparently, Mrs. Fleming was a friend of the family who visited Ireland from time to time.  At least two sets of 1st cousins knew this and had never previously mentioned it to us!  If only they had told us when our mother was alive or before her only surviving sibling [now aged 99] had developed dementia!

Snippets of information/misinformation obtained from various cousins:
[1] My mother was aged about 18 or 19 when she was sent away/had the baby.
[2] She wrote home to say that she had named the baby Eileen Rose but that it had died.
[3] One cousin claims to have seen some website which a friend had told him about which showed a death at 6 days old in Lancashire in 1933.  God knows what website would show enough information to identify the child as my mother's and the cousin cannot now remember.     

I have been unable to find any likely birth or death on Free BMD.
The GRO was unable to find any record of a stillbirth from 1931 to 1933 and has refunded the £9.25 fee.

One sister is convinced that the baby did not die but was given up for adoption.  She reckons that our mother just said that the baby had died as a means of drawing a line under the matter and avoiding further questioning.  The other sisters have come round to her way of thinking but I am unsure.  The plan, when our mother was sent to England in disgrace, must have been to give the baby up, anyway.

After twenty years of doing genealogy and tracking down distant cousins in far-flung lands, I am completely flummoxed about what to try next.

Oldham Local Studies & Archives have baptism records for eight R.C. parishes and some records for Boundary Park Hospital for the relevant period.  I could travel from Essex to Lancashire and a posse of four of us could descend on Oldham Local Studies & Archives but was the child born and/or baptised in Oldham?  Or even in Lancashire?

Questions which anybody reading this may have the answers to
Could a birth or death in England & Wales from 1931 to 1934 ever not be registered?
Was it possible, from 1931 to 1934, for the birth or death of an infant in England & Wales to be registered as if adoptive parents were the biological parents?