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I need information on how to look up and obtain a death record for an ancester I belived died in South Africa c1884 - 1890 possible the Durban area, is there a national data base or is it more area based? Any guidence would help try to find this individual.
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Does anyone have any knowledge or information on finding some form of register for Apprentice Law Clerks c1884 working in a law practice in Elgin. I am unfamiliar with the Scottish legal system but would assume an app rentership would have some form of official documentation when the young person began with the law firm. I have try ed the 'Go ogle' method but cannot seem to get any information about this topic, I have a mystry Great Grandfather who's only clue was that he was an Apprentice Law Clerk living in Elgin in 1884 and old enough to father my Illegitimate Grandfather

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Hi again, If I do have more time for research on this thread and get anything new about the Hutments I will post it. As for the mysterious Edith the fact that after WJE Cowling death in 1959 she continued to work for Ms Serle for a short time she then moved in to 3 Philipots (Blunts Road), Eltham  Woolwich into what was an Alms house, makes me consider that that might be the area she was from and some connection to be able to get an Alms house. She must have been placed in a nursing home prior to death as that is where she died on the death cert, which was registers by someone else living in a nearby almshouse, This same neighbor organised her cremation. To find her identity might be a job of elimination that would take a lot of time, somewhere there was an Edith, if she used her first name born in 1885 if she used her correct dob that ended up with WJE Cowling
Thanks all Carol

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Edith's DOB on the 1939 reg was 28 Feb 1885. Although she called herself Edith Cowling there was no one of that name born at that time. Her age at death was 83 on death cert so that fits. WJE Cowling lied about his age in 1939, he was younger than the age he gave, which might have helped him avoid service during the war... he did have a history of dishonesty and failed to pay maintenance to wife and two children in Yorkshire. He did use the name Ernest and there is another William John Ernest Cowling who lived with an Edith Rosina Cowling nee Wilson/Dossett around at the time which has led to a false trail, possibly related, he originated from Truro Cornwall born 1894. I have ER's from 1932 - 1939 Woolwich  they then turn up as housekeepers in Chislehurst 1946 - 1959, after his death Edith returns to Woolwich till her death in 1969. The elderly relative thinks she was a married women with children before she ran off with my WJE and there are a lot of Edith's born in the 1885 quarter, if she did live in the hutments she could have been local or one of the many who came to work in the area like WJE Cowling. Any incite or suggestions would be appreciated or she may remain the women of mystery.
thanks Carol