Help needed to find accident victim

[kathhale]

I am trying to find some details about a man called Ellis who was knocked down and killed by a car in 1967 as he walked home in the dark from Dick Hudson's pub on Otley Rd on Rombald's Moor. He worked at Bingley cemetery. any help appreciated?

[KGarrad]

2 Ellis deaths in Worth Valley Registration District in 1967:

June qtr 1967, Ellis, George W    age 53

September qtr 1967, Ellis, Willie     age 79


I think Worth Valley would be the correct RD?

[kathhale]

thank you , he was under retirement age so the first one is a possibility. He also worked in the greenhouse at Bingley cemetery.

[arthurk]

The Probate Calendar (at the government's Find a Will website) has an entry which might refer to the June qtr registration:

George William ELLIS of 19 Victoria Avenue Mytholmes Haworth died 23 May 1967; probate was granted to his widow Annnie Elizabeth ELLIS. (The actual calendar entry is a bit more detailed, but this is all the relevant ID info.)

On the face of it, this entry might imply that he died at home - often (usually? always?) a place of death is given if it's other than the person's home address; many other entries on the same page have this, but this one doesn't.

Arthur

Edited to add:
If he survived the accident for a short time and was taken to hospital, you might need to check Bradford Reg Dist as well - that would probably be the most likely place for him to have been taken.

[kathhale]

Thanks for info about George Ellis. I don't think this will be him however as I am sure he lived in Bingley as he worked at the local cemetery and was killed on his way home from a local pub.

[groom]

If he died at the scene, as KG said, that comes under the Worth Valley registration district and in 1967 there are only those two male Ellis deaths.

I would think that an accident like that would be reported in the local papers, so that might be the place to start.

[arthurk]

If (a) he died in hospital and (b) it was late in the year and the death wasn't registered until 1968 (which could also be the case if there was an inquest), there's a possible death in the Bradford district in the March qtr of 1968.

The GRO index has two entries - Charles Ellis aged 56 and Charley Ellis aged 36, both with the same reference number. Because of the similarity, I suspect it may be a single death, but indexed twice because the clerk was working from an unclear original.

On a quick look I couldn't see a probate entry which might have clarified the situation - but there are pages and pages of Ellises, and I didn't look right through them in case Charles was a middle name.

Arthur

[kathhale]

I understand the victim died at the scene and was found in the middle of the road. He was then apparently taken to Bingley cemetery the following morning.

[kathhale]

I am told it was definitely in 1967 between March and November, possibly the summer.