William Thorpe - died Peterborough 1960's

[mazzie74]

Hi

I'm trying to find the death details of William Robert Thorpe (born Norfolk, England 29th March 1912).

He married in Peterborough in 1935 to Hilda May McDonald and had 5 children.

He left her and had children to a married woman Joan West (married name Werninck).

The youngest child was born in 1960 and said his dad died in Peterborough when he was about 4.

But there is no record of his death, burial or obituary in Northamptonshire in the 1960's.

Some family tree's online have him dying in Norfolk in 1967, but his son says that's not him as he died when he was there in Peterborough, and he definitely wasn't as old as 7.

Can anybody please find a record of death for William Robert Thorpe in Peterborough approximately 1964?

Thanks.

[maddys52]

I can't see a death yet, but you may be interested- there is a detailed report in 1946 of Hilda May MacDONALD (THORPE) convicted of bigamy.
Thursday,  Aug. 1, 1946
Publication: Evening Telegraph

Certainly there is a William R THORPE death registered in North Walsham in Mar qtr 1968, aged 56, so the right age. Might be worth getting the certificate to see if it is possible? A child aged about 8 of an estranged parent could be told a story that is not quite true, or could remember events not quite as they happened.

[mazzie74]

Thank you for that Maddy