Obituary from 1996

[mkcoop]

I am trying to locate the obituary for Anthony Smith who died on 7 January 1996. Newspapers from that year are not online. Anyway for me to  locate it even though I don't live in Scotland?

[DonM]

There are only 5 Anthony's who died in 1996 you can see them on Scot's People.  If you spot the one you are looking for you can order a copy of his death registration for £12.

Don

[Forfarian]

I am trying to locate the obituary for Anthony Smith who died on 7 January 1996. Newspapers from that year are not online. Anyway for me to  locate it even though I don't live in Scotland?

Where in Scotland did he die? There are actually quite a lot of different newspapers in Scotland (four dailies for a start, plus umpteen local weeklies) so you need to know which area to look in.

[GeriK64]

There is an Anthony Smith interred in Airbles Cemetery in Motherwell, late December 1996 don't know if this is any help to you.

[mkcoop]

He died in Glasgow at Knightswood Hospital.  He lived on Fortrose Street.

[mkcoop]

I have his death certificate. I was hoping for an obituary to see if it mentions children.

[GeriK64]

I would imagine if he was buried it would be a Glasgow Cemetery. Try the Evening Times newspaper. 

[MonicaL]

Hi mkcoop

See you are still on the trail of death notices 

As you are finding, both the Glasgow Herald and Evening Times have not yet been made available online for 1996. Would require someone to look this up for you at a local history library that had these papers archived.

Not sure however that you would necessarily get children's names from it, if there was a death notice to be found, as the Glasgow papers in the main simply state funeral arrangements and timings...but, as always with these searches, you never know until you look!

You mention you have the actual death cert. Assume a child of his was not the informant.

Monica 

[RJ_Paton]

I have checked the Gale Group modern newspapers which have the Glasgow Herald and the Evening Times available for that period but the online search does not throw up anything from 1995 or 1996 for your man (it would seem that only the news sections are available).