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Title: Whitehall, John Thomas
Post by: Parramattan on Friday 16 January 09 08:06 GMT (UK)

John Thomas Whitehall born 1871, but am still trying to determine when and where he died.  His son with same given names died in 1942, and I believe John snr died before then.  Anyone have any ideas?

Parramattan

Title: Re: Whitehall, John Thomas
Post by: diddymiller on Friday 16 January 09 08:52 GMT (UK)

some idea of place /county would help to narrow the search. thank you.

Diddy

Title: Re: Whitehall, John Thomas
Post by: Nick29 on Friday 16 January 09 13:52 GMT (UK)

Many deaths post-1915 ('ish) would probably not yet be indexed, so an area of where the person died would be essential, because it would be a case of searching the BMD registers manually, which would be a formidable task if you don't know the area where they died.

Title: Re: Whitehall, John Thomas
Post by: Parramattan on Friday 16 January 09 20:50 GMT (UK)

Thanks Diddy and Nick

                                  I'm actually in NSW, Australia, and our death indexes are available up to 1978.  I've also checked several other states, and will be doing more this morning, but I think there was a marriage separation, so he might have died under another name. I've checked every known variation of his name, and also under parents' names (an advantage of our indexes) - no go.

                                 There's a big gathering of the extended family coming up in March, and the friend I'm helping will ask then - possibly our only real hope for a clue.

                                   Thanks for your input
                                   Annette    8)

Title: Re: Whitehall, John Thomas
Post by: Nick29 on Friday 16 January 09 23:05 GMT (UK)

Annette, if you edit your profile to show that you're in Australia, people will be able to tailor their advice for where you live, otherwise we won't have a clue  :)

Title: Re: Whitehall, John Thomas
Post by: Parramattan on Sunday 18 January 09 04:07 GMT (UK)

Point taken - had registered and posted in rather a hurry, and hadn't even noticed that there was a profile to fix up (my first time on a chat/forum site)!  I also thought that only those interested in John Thomas Whitehall would be likely to reply.  As I'm doing this for a friend, I'll probably unsubscribe myself from this website in a few weeks, as his reunion will be on in March, where he expects to get some clues re the missing Granddad, and I have heaps of other things to do for myself.  Sorry to have wasted your time

Thanks
Annette   :D

Title: Re: Whitehall, John Thomas
Post by: Nick29 on Sunday 18 January 09 11:25 GMT (UK)

It's never a waste of time, but people get frustrated when they'd like to help, but can't  :)