newspapers

[Maiden Stone]

I've found death notices of some of my ancestors in 19thC regional newspapers. Mostly they are simply lists of names, with age, address + sometimes parents or spouse for each. There's more information if death was accidental or the person was better-off or locally well-known. Accidental death of a young man in Lancashire, son of a well-known businessman, was reported in a newspaper for the neighbouring county of  Westmorland. 

[Ruskie]

Very true Maiden Stone. The newspapers also seemed to relish recounting tragic or particularly gory deaths in great detail.

[Tracey Joy Kelly]

hi ruskie  yes that is the Alfred that I am talking about and thank you for the link I will check it out now

[Tracey Joy Kelly]

maiden stone 

yes  I think it may have been accidental   in one of the census it mentions that hes a messenger ..I kind of thought that he may of been run over or something

[Ruskie]

Don't let your imagination run away with you.  Only the death certificate will be able to tell you his cause of death.

[Tracey Joy Kelly]

hahaha yeah I know  which is why I will keep searching.. one say I will put it on the bucket list to buy

thank you for that link.. it was very haunting.. I am actually thanking my ancestors that they moved to Australia lol

[Ruskie]

The houses around Wellclose Square, if they had survived would be worth millions today! They are/were beautiful. There have been some bad decisions and destruction in the area over the decades (and it continues) - quite sad.

[Tracey Joy Kelly]

oh really that is amazing   I will have to tell my family

[Polly Lynn]

I would agree with Ruskie about newspapers and add that the middle class too took out newspaper obituaries.  My family, middle middle class or lower middle class farmers, often had obituaries starting in about the 1840s (or 1860s?).  They were short death notices, some of them.  I found these at the local (county) library in Ireland (not the U.K.).  They were being indexed and the good librarian sent me all by the surname I was interested in.  The Northern Standard was that newspaper.  So I would write the county library and address the letter to the reference librarian there.  It never hurts to send a library the information you already have, they then put that on file for your future relative to find.