People who don’t appear in the GRO indexes

[stonechat]

I guess many of us might have a few of these

My First is Elizabeth Boyce Donaldson, nee Douglas
According to a note in a family book, she died 18/9/1867

This is more or less confirmed by her burial at Linch, Sussex on 24 th September, record suggests she died at Woolbeding. She had been living at Hucksholt Farm on the Uppark Estate
No record of her death on the old or new GRO indexes.

I recently discovered another
Winifred Pullen, born 1.5.1921 according to 1939 register at Windsor according to 1921 census.
A tragic case and there could have been too much going on to register the child.
Mother widowed in WW1 , remarried and 2nd husband just into care for mental problems related to epilepsy, from where he never emerged until his death in 1950
I am sure I have more but these two stand out

[PaulineJ]

How old would the 1867 decesed have been?

[stonechat]

How old would the 1867 decesed have been?

32 years and with 6 children, husband died the following year, it was the dispersal of all these children among the families that got me looking at this

[Andrew Tarr]

I guess many of us might have a few of these

Mine is Charles Percy Liversidge, born December 1872 in Flintshire, my grandmother's younger brother.  He can be traced to an insurance company's office in Liverpool in 1903.  That company eventually became part of Aviva, whose archivist has confirmed that he was an Inspector of Agents paid £125 a year.  After that he just disappears.

Family folklore says he 'put his head in a gas oven'; if that happened in England I would have expected a record.  The family had connections with Ireland, so he may have gone there but might have shown up in 1911 (my mother did) ?  Of course all kinds of scenarios can be imagined - he might have changed his identity, for instance (don't know how to check that) 

Did suicides appear in the same register as 'normal' deaths ?

[stonechat]

I guess many of us might have a few of these

Did suicides appear in the same register as 'normal' deaths ?

Yes,I h have three suicides and they appear in the normal registers