I have been recently informed that the General Register Office for England and Wales has a new online ordering system. I immediately pulled out my indexed record for Aunt Bessie who I wrote about earlier and concluded that I had yet to find her birth and death registrations as she was born and died in England; yet, lived most of her life in Ireland. Bessie had one older brother, also born in England; Arthur Lincoln Cooper, which I ordered his birth record from London, England, a few years back by postal mail.
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England, Civil Registration, Manchester South District, Manchester County, 1838 Deaths,, No. 232 death record (PDF) for Elizabeth Pearson, died 22 October 1938; digital image, General Register Office, Southport, England, General Register Office (https://www.gro.gov.uk/: accessed and downloaded 19 October 2017).
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Registration District - Manchester South
No. 232
When and Where Died - Twenty-second October 1938
Sandown
Name and Surname: Elizabeth Pearson
Sex: Female
Age: 80 years
Rank or Profession: of 22 Goulden Road Withington UD
Widow of John Pearson Bank Manager (Retired)
Cause of Death: 1(a) Cardiac Muscle failure (b) Myocardial Degeneration (c) Senility Certified by W. Johnson M.B.
Signature, Description, and Residence of Informant:
James Barlow Present at Death 22 Goulden Road Withington
When Registered: Twenty-fourth October 1938
Signature of Registrar: L. Worswick
Fifteen years earlier, in 1922, Bessie took a trip to the United States. The ship record stated she was living with a Mrs. Barlow. I concluded in another blog post that Mrs. Barlow was her niece, Hannah Jane Cooper, the daughter of Henry Cooper, Bessie's eldest brother. I see here that Mr. James Barlow, her nephew-in-law was present at her death.
Her location of death is crossed out with another address added. James Barlow's address is the crossed out address. So which is the address she lived at and/or died at. Which one was her address and which one was her niece's address? As seen in the map above, the two addresses were only a walking distance apart from one another.
Postscript
Bessie's birth record is a challenge as so far in my research for her birth location; I have come across three locations. Faringdon (family Bible), Aldershot (ship record) and London (1911 Irish Census). Looking in the Birth Index for her birth year of 1857, I am having a difficult time with finding an Elizabeth Cooper born in or near these three locations.
My conclusion in Aunt Bessie's first post was Faringdon with documents of father's work location at the time.
I will have to order several Elizabeth Cooper birth records to hopefully find the right daughter of Austin Cooper and Elizabeth Gibson.
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