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Offline Rayjamgor

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Looking for a death of a Mary Little .
« on: Saturday 18 March 17 09:55 GMT (UK) »
I have her on the 1861, 1871, 1881 census with her family in Cumberland Lane, Gorbals showing age 52 and single and born Ireland. Theres a Mary Little in the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum near Lenzie in the 1901 census matching her but still cant locate a death near there for her age . Did these places always register deaths ?
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Re: Looking for a death of a Mary Little .
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 18 March 17 11:01 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Rayjamgor on Saturday 18 March 17 09:55 GMT (UK)
I have her on the 1861, 1871, 1881 census with her family in Cumberland Lane, Gorbals showing age 52 and single and born Ireland. Theres a Mary Little in the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum near Lenzie in the 1901 census matching her but still cant locate a death near there for her age . Did these places always register deaths ?
If you are asking if it is possible that the Lunatic Asylum neglected to register her death, the answer is no, there is no possibility that they did not register the death.

Have you tried contacting Glasgow City Archives http://www.glasgowfamilyhistory.org.uk/DiscoverLearn/GettingStarted/Pages/Glasgow-City-Archives.aspx to see if there is anything about her in the parochial board (Poor Law) records?

Records of inmates in lunatic asylums are generally closed for 100 years, so if she died after 1916 you would not be allowed to see them. See http://www.glasgowfamilyhistory.org.uk/DiscoverLearn/GettingStarted/Pages/NHS-Greater-Glasgow-and-Clyde-Archives.aspx
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.
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