Author Topic: David Simpson Railway guard of Londonderry  (Read 4391 times)

Offline Jon_ni

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Re: David Simpson Railway guard of Londonderry
« Reply #18 on: Monday 24 January 22 00:51 GMT (UK) »
Glad to hear, for many of mine buried early 1900's the headstone was not erected till 40 or 50 years later when child died & was interred with them. On one for a distant cousin erected 1978 by her Canadian children the earlier death dates 1929-69 are all wrong by a day /week or so ref. death certs, wills & newspapers. I could understand a death cert perhaps being out by a day or two and headstone correct but not a newspaper burial announcement & funeral before the headstone date.

Name search can be very hit and miss for death notices. In theory one should be able to just search for David Simpson 1906 but the Optcal Characher Regonition too often misses or mis-transcribes so generally I end up searching Belfast Telegraph for 'funeral' and the day after the death and just read the alphabetical listing then look next day or day of death & any other Belfast or local papers. It did find all the other articles by name only.