Can anybody help me find details of a death at the start of the 20th century.
I am having difficulty finding details of the death of my Great-grandfather John Thomas TANNER who was born in 1847 in Walton on Thames. I can find entries for him the Census in Surrey up to and including the 1901 Census (RG13/670), and from there I need help.
One of his children was Horace TANNER (my grandfather) who married in 1916. On the 1916 wedding certificate the Groom's Father is listed as 'John Tanner (deceased)'. Therefore, I assume that he died between 1901 and 1916.
But I can't find a suitable death record between those dates. There is a 'John Thomas Tanner' who died aged 1 in 1909 in Epsom, but I can find a matching birth entry for this person in 4th quarter 1907, so this is NOT my John Thomas Tanner.
I have checked the 'Kingston Local History' site, and although I can find various 'John TANNERs', none of them are my family.
Have I missed anything? I have tried various searches including name variations; I've looked at 1837Online, Ancestry, FreeBMD. So far I have assumed that he died somewhere in Surrey, so I tried searching for a death across the whole of the UK, and the few matches I found did not have the correct ages.
Can anyone help me find his death? Many thanks.
