On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:03:41 -0800 (PST), John Watt <[email protected]> wrote: >I put you all on to a wrong path ! The fellow I'm looking for was actually >PERCY EDWARD WARNE who was born 19 Jul 1899 at 1 North Terrace, Worthing, SSX, ENG. > >What I can't find anywhere is his death or marriage date/spouse, please? > The three 1920s/1930s passenger lists to or from the Far East which show a man with an age match to him as a planter/tea planter don't have any hint of him being married. Unless he's lived well over 100 then it doesn't look like he died in England and Wales but you could try putting his name (without the middle name/initial ?) into :- https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills in case he left estate in England and Wales. If he did then the index entry should say where he died. There is no match in the deaths index for Scotland. Unfortunately the modern PRFD indexes have comparatively minimal information about the deceased's marital status or the identity of the executor but you could also try the London Gazette (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/) between date of death and date of probate in case there is a statutary notice for either of them. There is another man of the same name born in West Ham (died 1976 in Worthing registration district) but someone else has already got him tied to Gladys Florence BUCKLAND for which there is a 1937 marriage in Croydon which matches. He has possibly remarried in 1965 to Joan E HENDRICK (if that is not actually your man). A possible match for that wife might be :- England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007 Death, Burial, Cemetery & Obituaries Name: Joan Elizabeth Warne Birth: 8 Apr 1921 Death: Mar 1988 - Surrey Northern, Surrey, England Wills index entry :- WARNE Joan Elizabeth, 32 Bruce Ave Shepperton Middx** died 22 March 1988 Not exceeding 70,000 ** postal address, administrative county Surrey.