Missing death index and certificate [Brickwall]

[elliesboys]

Lets hope I can get one. Just to see who he looks like would be unbelievable!! Thank you all so much for all your help. In really do appreciate it. 

[JenB]

I may order the death certificate to see if it was a Lily or one of their children who registered the death.

The residence/place of death on this would be the important first step to finding where he was buried/cremated.

[Tickettyboo]

and just a reminder a death register entry is available from the GRO as a .pdf, at a cheaper price than a cert on a posh piece of paper - and often arrives a lot quicker :-)

Boo

[Love&Leaves]

Thanks guys - have ordered a few via the pdf option, its great!

[Love&Leaves]

Also I couldn't agree more Ellieboys.. pictures are the holy grail!  Just yesterday, a hint popped up on my tree and I now have a picture of Georgina Battista, Giovanni's eldest daughter and James eldest sister!!!!! It has been posted by one of her daughter Harriet's descendants - have messaged them and am waiting for a response.  So you see you never know when what you are looking for might just turn up out of the blue! 

[Love&Leaves]

RTL that's an interesting theory re William Brabant.... and very credible considering James and his brother Vincent's stories....

Second Ellieboys thanks to everyone, particularly RTL, for all the continued help and support on this - feel like pieces of the puzzle are flying in from all angles at the moment! 

[JenB]

There is a William Brabant and wife Charlotte (Gorbould) in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1891 and 1901. They married there in 1883. No sign of them in 1911 

[Tickettyboo]

This appears to be the marriage for the William Brabant and Charlotte that JenB found
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP3H-K5W4

No idea if it fits, I've kind of lost track

Boo

[JenB]

This is such a long thread now and it is hard to remember if this is something we have gone over before.  However, I am wondering if Giovanni might also have had an alias - William?

Daughter Elizabeth was taken out by a W.Brabant on 17 August 1904.  A William Brabant had married in Newcastle in June quarter 1904 to either Mary Ann McCann or Margaret Speers. In my post on page 13 post 115 when Elizabeth returns to the workhouse it was recorded that 'Father William a tailor'.  Giovanni was a tailor.

A William Brabant died 1927 in Newcastle upon Tyne aged 71 so birth year around 1846.  Apologies if we have already gone over all this and dismissed it - I just can't remember.

Just trying to clarify this, as I am confused.

Is the sugggestion that W. Brabant is an alias for Giovanni Battista?