Hi Ken As I posted previously the overseas indexes are free to use on familyrelatives.com so you don't need to pay , Ancestry don't have the overseas indexes unfortunately Overseas military or their family were not recorded in the census in this Country until the 1911 census (that particular index has yet to be released) If they were at home on leave or stationed in the UK they would have been recorded in the usual way Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Hi Dave > The issue as regards a British Death Certificate is a bit of a ticklish > question! I would suggest that you check all of the following indices (via > "Ancestry" and /or "findmypast"?): > Service (Army) Deaths > Consular Deaths > Overseas Deaths > Whether or not you will find anything remains to be seen - but good luck! > > It is extremely unlikely that you will find her on the British 1891 and > 1901 > censuses. There is an outside chance that you *might* find him if his army > unit got recorded, given that they were official British ex-pats, but I > would not like to put any money on your doing so! > Ken. > In rural West Sussex, U.K.

thanks to both Ken and Nivard for your helpful suggestions, I suspect it is going to be tricky but I will give it a try. Dave Carr Paignton Devon