From: <[email protected]> > Please can you save me and my sister's sanity? We're looking for the > death of our 2nd Ggrandmother last known at Reservoir Street Wardley > Felling Jarrow in 1901 census living with sons Michael and Patrick and > daughter Elizabeth Ann. She has been called various first names - > Ellen Ann, Nancy and Ann and various spellings of surnames. Rourke, > Orourke, Orooke and possibly any other variation you can think of. She > was born in Ireland about 1835 and married an Andrew Rourke in > Wigan in 1859. They moved to Quarrington Hill, Cassop and Wheatley > Hill. > We've searched the BMDs for all variations we can think of from Jan > 1901 to June 1911 as we can't find her in 1911 but we have found her > children still living in the Wardley area. > Anyone with access to Catholic parish records for that area or > possible pointers as to where to go next??? I live in London but my > sis lives in Durham County. Cathy The fact you can't find her in 1911 does not necessarily mean she had died by then. It is possible she'd moved to another part of the UK or perhaps gone back to Ireland to spend her final years. Might it be possible she'd ended up in an institution, such as the workhouse or a hospital/asylum? If so, sometimes inmates were only identified by initials. BTW, forgive me mentioning it, and it's a tiny point of semantics, but the correct description is County Durham, not Durham County. Durham is the only English county that takes the appendage "County" but as a prefix and not a suffix. The other counties that are also described in this way are the counties of Ireland, i.e. County Down, not Down County. To put "county" after the name is an Americanism not used here because in the US a county is a sub-division of a state, whereas in Britain and Ireland the county is in effect the state. -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE