Date of Death

[linnyhinny]

Can anyone help me trace the date of death and age of my Grandmother - Ethel Maud Baker of Burradon/Camperdown in Northumberland.

She was born Ethel Maud Guthrie daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth Guthrie in 1892 and died July or August 1956 and was buried in St. Bartholomew's graveyard, Benton with no date of exact birth or death on her gravestone

Her first married name was Pattinson and later married with the surname Baker

To my knowledge she had two living daughters Elizabeth (Lily) Pattinson and my Mother Margaret (Peggy) Baker

[Ecneps]

Hi Linnyhinny,

Welcome to rootschat! 

To begin with, here's her birth registration if you want to get the certificate:

Mar 1892 Tynemouth 10b   241    Ethel Maud GUTHRIE

and first marriage registration:
Mar 1910 Tynemouth    10b   359
GUTHRIE    Ethel Maudand  PATTERSON  William

possible second marriage:
Mar 1924   Tynemouth    10b   259
BAKER    William    and   Patterson    Ethel M   


Barbara       

[Ecneps]

Found these three Patterson births on freebmd all with mother's maiden name Guthrie:

Births Mar 1912  Newcastle T.    10b   213     Patterson    Elizabeth
Births Mar 1915   Tynemouth    10b   566    Patterson    Andrew            
Births Mar 1917   Tynemouth    10b   474    Patterson    Margaret


and this one from possible second marriage, mother's maiden name Guthrie:

Jun 1924  Tynemouth    10b   539    Baker    Margaret A   

1901 census 
RG13/4808 Folio  158  Page  8
3 Fryers Terrace, Camperdown, Tynemouth, Northumberland
GUTHRIE
Thomas    head mar 49 Colliery Fan & Engineman  b. Durham, Gateshead
Elizabeth   wife mar 36       b. Northumberland Seghill
George      son 10
Ethel M      dau   9
Thomas     son    7
John            "      6
Joseph        "      3
all children born Camperdown


   
Will have a look for her death

Barbara

[Ecneps]

This looks like her death registration:

Sept Quarter 1956 Northumberland S.  1b 302
Ethel M. Baker aged 64

Barbara 

[linnyhinny]

Thanks everyone for the information given so far.  Is it possible that some of the dates given are the dates that i.e. my Grandmother's marriage was registered rather than the actual date she got married as it looks as if my Mother was expected before my Grandmother was married which I would have imagined was frowned upon in the 1920's.

Can anyone advise me therefore how to get the exact date of death?

[Ecneps]

t looks as if my Mother was expected before my Grandmother was married which I would have imagined was frowned upon in the 1920's.

Happened quite a lot!

Registrations are by Quarters, so the Sept Qu is actually July to September, and sometimes late June births etc. would be registered in that quarter.

To find the exact date you either need to buy the certificate, or find the event in the local parish records.

Kind regards,
Barbara 

[linnyhinny]

Thanks Barbara - I will look into that.