William Maltby Riversley b 1902 and died Hastings 1985

[garry edgar]

the idea of an illegitimate child is my personal favourite at the moment.

My grandfathers aunt(Beatrice) was living with this child and her own father in 1911.

I am pretty sure my grandfathers mother(my gr grandmother) and sister of Beatrice was trained as a midwife and worked in nursing once she came out to Australia.    What is the chance of a home-birth and no official birth record ?

[garry edgar]

PS.  I think from what my grandfather told us, he lived and worked as an engineer in South Africa.  Don't know how to find a marriage record there ?

[garry edgar]

I finally got around to ordering his death certificate.

He died 26-11-1985, 20 Rotherfield Ave, Bex Hill, East Sussex.
His date of birth was listed as 17-5-1902. 
The witness was a Horace Newing who lived at the same address. I am suspecting there might have never been a marriage !

Could some kind sole find aout about any potential Obits.

I have looked for a death cert for Horace but none on ancestry prior to 2005.  He doesn't feature in the BT phonebook either.