Hi BAK
Have been back in library today and have so far looked through Grantham Journal micro films from Jan 1967-Aug 1968 no luck so far on Herbert Leslies death but I will check further when I go in library again.I did find some Turners but not the one we wanted.
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Cheers
Kathy
Kathy, you are a complete star, and I hope BAK appreciates just how much time it takes to check through over 18 months-worth of newspapers. (And yes, I know the obits are usually on the same page each week, but it still takes time to wind the film on and read the entries.)
However, to the thread in general - am I missing something? Surely the logical thing is to check for deaths in the GRO Index first? Can't see any mention of that actually being done.
I appreciate the absence of a death registration in the GRO Index doesn't mean that a death didn't occur in that time span - could have happened abroad, in Scotland or Ireland, on board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean
, etc, and therefore you would have to look for an obit.
and Kathy even you said
I did look through Electoral Rolls and found that Herbert & Monica both lived 29 Shakespeare Ave in 1968 but only Monica lived there from 1970/76 so that has narrowed it down to 2 yrs to look in Grantham Journal for Herbert's obituary.Unless of course he went into a home or something but will check on Saturday.
If there's no likely Herberts on the GRO Index, how about looking for Monica's death registration, then hopefully finding her obit in the paper. That should tell you whether Herbert was still living, or alternatively give some clue about when when he died. And where, if it was out of the district.
Pam
