Author Topic: WHAT TO DO NEXT?? HELP  (Read 1586 times)

Offline mandymoo27

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 30
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
WHAT TO DO NEXT?? HELP
« on: Tuesday 15 March 11 10:05 GMT (UK) »
Hi

William Earnshaw b 18 May 1875 - d 30 Jun 1958 LOWER AGBRIGG??

Where is Lower AGBRIGG?
Who would I contact if I wanted them to do an obituary search & what newspaper would it most likely be in?
In 1958 would he have been cremated rather than buried?
If there was a will would this be available to view online?

Apologies for the "BLONDE" moment I am having but I am ready to smash my computer up !! ???

Hope someone can help me

Thanks in advance

Amanda

Offline jksdelver

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,290
    • View Profile
Re: WHAT TO DO NEXT?? HELP
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 15 March 11 10:12 GMT (UK) »
This may help with the area of possible death area.

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/lower%20agbrigg.html

Wakefield news papers (Wakefield Library) may be a good place to start

Offline mgc

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 29
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: WHAT TO DO NEXT?? HELP
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 15 March 11 10:42 GMT (UK) »
I'm going to guess:  Agbrigg Road, Wakefield

Google Maps points you right to it.

Mike
Jackson YKS, Sidney YKS, Bagshaw YKS & DBY, and to a lesser extent: Glossop, Hudson YKS

Offline J.R.Ellam

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 977
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: WHAT TO DO NEXT?? HELP
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 15 March 11 11:47 GMT (UK) »
Hi

This is a difficult one.
Lower Agbrigg was formed in the 1939 and it had parts of Wakefield and Dewsbury in it.
The main areas I think were Horbury, Ossett, etc. The registers were then divided and sent to Leeds and Wakefield.
The burial or cremation would depend on were the lived, if you have an address it could point you in the right direction. The obit if there was one would have been posted in the local paper so you really need to know what part of the area they were from and that might involve getting the death certificate from the General Register Office in Southport but I always fell I have been ripped off when I get one from them.
A long shot could be going on the Wakefield website and seeing if you can find them in the on-line burial registers.

Regards
John
Ellam, Mills, Ellins
Firth, Wood, Muffitt
Hill, Mattinson, Nicholson
Morrey, Hudson, Limb


Offline jksdelver

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,290
    • View Profile
Re: WHAT TO DO NEXT?? HELP
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 15 March 11 11:50 GMT (UK) »
If you have the death date have you the death certificate? If so then it should show the actual place of death

Offline mandymoo27

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 30
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: WHAT TO DO NEXT?? HELP
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 15 March 11 12:04 GMT (UK) »
Thanks everyone ... I have been goven a telephone number by an interactive librarian lol ;D