Death of Annie King Richardson

[Forfarian]

Annie King, born 1836 in Scotland, married David Richardson, officer of Excise, Ennis, Co Clare, in 1866 in Glasgow. (It was a second marriage for both, but the first marriages have no bearing on this query.)

According to http://www.rootschat.com/links/01syv/ Annie King Richardson, Cappahard, Ennis, Clare, died 24th October 1915.

I have so far failed to find
- an Irish death certificate
- a Scottish death certificate
- any mention of her in the Scottish Calendar of Confirmation (there is no such thing as probate in Scots Law - the corresponding process is Confirmation)

Can anyone hazard a guess why there's apparently no death certificate?

[heywood]

I haven’t found the death in Ireland, either.
There are these records which you will have but may be an help.
Administration was granted to Maude King. https://www.rootschat.com/links/01syw/
1911 - Maude King
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Clare/Ennis_Rural/Cappahard/352732/

[heywood]

There is a notice here in Ancestry
Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936

It has much the same information as the Irish notice but the address of death is given as Cappa House, Cappahard.
Maude King is referred to as Maude Russell King - niece and next of kin.
You can view the Russell/King marriage on Irish genealogy site.

[Forfarian]

Thanks, Heywood

She did have a Maud Russell living with her in the 1901 census.

The difficulty with that Ancestry listing is the same as with the Clare listing - she is not in the original Calendar of Confirmation at source (Scotland's People) so I can't see where the information came from. Unless <lightbulb> she actually died in England ....

.... no, you say she died in Ennis. But why would she die in Ennis 36 years after her husband retired from his job there in 1869, and they had sold up all their household contents and moved back to Scotland where he died in 1880? 

[Wexflyer]

Thanks, Heywood

She did have a Maud Russell living with her in the 1901 census.

The difficulty with that Ancestry listing is the same as with the Clare listing - she is not in the original Calendar of Confirmation at source (Scotland's People) so I can't see where the information came from. Unless <lightbulb> she actually died in England ....

.... no, you say she died in Ennis. But why would she die in Ennis 36 years after her husband retired from his job there in 1869, and they had sold up all their household contents and moved back to Scotland where he died in 1880?

The answer is obvious - to be near her next of kin - her niece, who was in Clare.

[Wexflyer]

I haven’t found the death in Ireland, either.
There are these records which you will have but may be an help.
Administration was granted to Maude King. https://www.rootschat.com/links/01syw/
1911 - Maude King
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Clare/Ennis_Rural/Cappahard/352732/

According to this, the administration - with will - was granted in Limerick. So the records should still exist. Would not have been in the PRO in 1922.

[Forfarian]

Thank you.

I have now discovered that Annie's son died in 1896, which explains why a niece became her next of kin.