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Title: ww2 death
Post by: mudmonster on Wednesday 10 December 25 13:11 GMT (UK)

Hello ,Searching for the death of Helen Mather in 1940 in Edgbaston Birmingham,I think she died in an air raid but cannot find the link to the newspaper reports anymore and the computer has crashed with the records on it,Should of backed up the records on another program!
Thanks
Mud
 

Title: Re: ww2 death
Post by: martin hooper on Wednesday 10 December 25 15:19 GMT (UK)

Hello

She doesn't appear in the WW2 Civilian Deaths on ancestry.

Martin

Title: Re: ww2 death
Post by: ShaunJ on Wednesday 10 December 25 15:28 GMT (UK)

Burial at St Peter, Harborne, 20 September 1940 aged 52. 97 Sandon Road, Edgbaston.

Title: Re: ww2 death
Post by: emeltom on Wednesday 10 December 25 18:44 GMT (UK)

GRO Index
Helen Mather Sep 1940 Birmingham 6d 349 age 52

Title: Re: ww2 death
Post by: mudmonster on Wednesday 10 December 25 18:54 GMT (UK)

Thanks for all the replies ,I could of sworn I read on a newspaper that she was a casualty of the bombing in ww2,however she is not in the ancestry lists-and I am only going on memory about reading the newspaper,
Thanks anyway
Mud

Title: Re: ww2 death
Post by: rosie99 on Thursday 11 December 25 15:41 GMT (UK)

The death certificate is available for £3 as a digital image

MATHER, HELEN    age   52 
GRO Reference: 1940  Sept Quarter in BIRMINGHAM  Volume 06D  Page 349
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Title: Re: ww2 death
Post by: manukarik on Friday 12 December 25 09:13 GMT (UK)

I had a look on this database:

https://database.birminghamairraids.co.uk/ (https://database.birminghamairraids.co.uk/)

Although there are a number of Helens on the site there is no Helen Mather.