help please advice why can i not find death.

[dwalin]

can somepne please help.i have been searching for a death in glasgow.

my gggranmother
helen marshall nee craigborn about,1817?in shotts.

her last child was born in 1856 in blochairn iron works(workers housing)
she is not on the 1861 census with her husband
william marshall,he is discribed as widower.
i have searched scotlands people and found one marshall/craig but shes not mine.
any ideas where to look.
i also can not find a birth of one of there sons in 1850

james marshall.

is there gaps in the site.(if you know what i mean)
thank you dwalin

[RJ_Paton]

Pre 1855 there are gaps as not all parish registers were created equal .... the quality depended largely upon the person keeping the records. In addition not all records made it through the years.

This may be them in the 1851 index living in New Monkland
William Marshall age 32 born Perth
Helen Marshall age 30 born Airdrie
William Marshall age 10 born Airdrie
Elisabeth Marshall age 7 born Airdrie

[dwalin]

thank you for your reply sadly this isent mine.
i have found them in 1861 in blochairn
the marshalls i have done much better with.
i will have to just keep looking in the hope i might get lucky with
helen marshall/nee craig.
thank you again.
dwalin

[JAP]

Dwalin,

Re the son born 1850 - he may well not be recorded (might not have been baptized; might have been baptized in a church the records of which have not been indexed, etc).  Statutory Registration did not begin until 1855 in Scotland.

When I did a free search on ScotlandsPeople, it came up with two records for the death of a Helen MARSHALL other name CRAIG between 1855 and 1861.

Also, have you considered that whoever was the informant of her death might not have known her maiden surname so she might not be indexed under that name as well as her maiden name i.e. she might be indexed only under MARSHALL.

And also, that perhaps she might have been recorded as Ellen or Nellie.

JAP

[dwalin]

thank you im going to have a look at it and try your suggestions.thanks again.
scotland have the better info on records but i wished they had started at 1837 like england.
dwalin

[nenny4]

I had a similar problem trying to locate a Catherine.... eventually found her marriage cert her name on it was Kate as was her death cert...so as your relative was a Helen try searching Ellen/Nell/Nellie happy hunting