Mystery of the death of Peter Pendleton

[polly88]

June - I think that's worth a shot!!  I'd never thought of putting an ad in the local paper.  You never know, some distant relative might know something.  I know he lived with his daughter and husband towards the end of his life, and they were the Bartons, and I know there are Bartons still living in St Helens.  Thanks.

Marg and Gibel - I really will have to pay another visit to St Helens.  I've been a few times but couldn't find anything but then I was flailing around a lot, and didn't really know what I was looking for.

Gibel - Esther Jane, his wife, died following a fall in Stanhope St, St Helens 16.12.16.  Inquest held 20.1.17.  Information I've got from death certificate.  She is buried in St Helens Cemetery:
Grave Section:  46; Grave Number:  414; Not recorded; Purchased: Yes   
Lease Details:  Lease Type:  Fixed period   
Lease First:  21 / 01 / 1917   
Lease Start Date:  21 / 01 / 1917   
Lease End Date:  20 / 01 / 2017:  Lease PD, 100

In the grave with her are her daughter Edith Whitaker (nee Pendleton) (1969) and her husband John Thomas Whitaker (1941).

[MargP]

Good luck Polly I hope you have better luck than me, I have been searching 10 years for my Grandmothers DC and never found anything on her

Margp

[polly88]

Thanks Marg.  That's the way it goes sometimes, isn't it?

Best of luck!

Polly

[jinks]

I think it is seven years before you can declare someone dead that went missing but has that always been the case - if it was twenty years at this point in time you may have another possible

[polly88]

How do you mean Jinks?  What would I have to do, and how would it help me know what happened to him?  I would just love to resolve this, it has been nagging at me (and my extended family!) for so many years.

[jinks]

Found one that was 76 Prescot but about twenty years too late.....you could try tracing this individual backwards to see if he existed OR could he be yours declared dead twenty years after he had gone missing?

The Details are Death 1944 March Quarter from freebmd

[Pennines]

Hello Jinks (I was going to write Hi Jinks, but thought better of it!)

I don't know for sure, but if a person is only 'assumed' to be dead (and I agree with you about the 7 years) -- a court order is necessary to obtain a death certificate.

I don't think it has ever been as long as 20 years before that assumption will be made, although it may depend upon when a family member applies to the court.

There is some information on;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_absentia

Regards June

[polly88]

Thanks Jinks.  I have found the PP you have found the death for.  He is from the Pendletons of Prescot who were watchmakers and repairers.  I keep coming across them, as they seem to use the same first names as my Pendletons (as do the Manchester/Blackley Pendletons)!  I know that there wasn't the same range of first names in Victorian times as now, but it does seem to be a big coincidence (and I don't believe in them!).

I have never been able to make a link between the three separate Pendleton families but bet they are connected in some way!

Thanks for looking though.

Polly