Hi I looked in Lancashire B M D and found this for the year 1946:- John Thomas Edmunson age 72 died in Sub-district of Clitheroe, Registers at Preston. This would have made him born in 1874, and would have made him around 40 at the time of WW1. Could this be your John Thomas? I have found that ages on Death certificates are not very reliable in the earlier times, for example they gave my gt granny's age as 59 when she was actually 66. I think they sometimes must have guessed at it. Good luck in your search. Jacqui Kilcoyne

On Jul 26, 2006, at 10:45, KILCOYELS@aol.com wrote: > I looked in Lancashire B M D and found this for the year 1946:- > John Thomas Edmunson age 72 died in Sub-district of Clitheroe, > Registers at > Preston. I have an Ann EDMONDSON whose son [?] was called Howarth, they were 48 & 5 yrs respectively in 1861. They are shown as Visitors (so no relationship is given) on the 1861 census for Low Moor, Clitheroe. Any known connections? Henry

> I looked in Lancashire B M D and found this for the year 1946:- > John Thomas Edmunson age 72 died in Sub-district of Clitheroe, Registers at > Preston. > This would have made him born in 1874, and would have made him around 40 at > the time of WW1. > Could this be your John Thomas? > I have found that ages on Death certificates are not very reliable in the > earlier times, for example they gave my gt granny's age as 59 when she was > actually 66. I think they sometimes must have guessed at it. Thanks. I had not thought of that. I was using 1837 and spent about £10 looking! I stopped at 1945 because I was getting tired at staring at the screen, I was going to continue my search later. It certainly could be him. Preston does not seem too far to consider. I agree about the ages; I think with births people registered the wrong birthday to escape being fined for late registration and with deaths, the deceased could not inform them, so the informant guessed how old they were. Since people could not write or count, I guess this added to the margin of error. I'll look into it, thanks.