On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:46:16 +0100, David Mills <dcm19401@gmailREMOVE.com> wrote: >On 11/06/2013 23:29, Charles Ellson wrote: >> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:12:09 +0100, David Mills >> <dcm19401@gmailREMOVE.com> wrote: >> >>> My g/gfather ,born ca 1853 was described in the 1911 as an army pensioner. >>> He served practically his whole time in Ireland and then India >>> I have found several alternatives from Free BMD as to where and when he died. >>> Presumably his pension ceased when he died, so can anyone tell me how I >>> can find this information? >>> >> Generally in the National Archives at Kew. See e.g. :- >> http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/britisharmysoldierupto1913.htm >> [soldiers] >> http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/britisharmyofficerbefore1913.htm >> [officers] >> >> Note that FreeBMD only covers England and Wales, he would only have >> needed to be away for the weekend to escape inclusion. >> >> for Scotland :- >> copies of films of death register indexes are available at various LDS >> family history centres, the electronic version can be searched in >> www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk >> >> for Ireland :- >> see www.familysearch.org for an electronic version of the deaths >> indexes up to the 1950s. >> >> Mann :- >> http://www.manxbmd.com/ (third party electronic version of indexes) >> >> However, if he was domiciled in England and Wales and left estate >> requiring probate or administration then wherever he died he should >> feature in the PRFD indexes which can be viewed (up to 196x) in >> Ancestry and compared with your list of possible death index entries. >> >I have his army record which goes from his enlistment to the time he was >discharged. >However what I am looking for is the date at which his pension ceased to >be paid. >Is this >This will then give an approximate date of death which will cut down the >number certificates I will have to buy. > If there is a match in the PRFD indexes then that should give you the actual date of his death and maybe the place. Can you give us his name and birth year and last known whereabouts ? Am I correct in thinking you don't have access to Ancestry ?

On 12/06/2013 19:28, Charles Ellson wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:46:16 +0100, David Mills > <dcm19401@gmailREMOVE.com> wrote: > >> On 11/06/2013 23:29, Charles Ellson wrote: >>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:12:09 +0100, David Mills >>> <dcm19401@gmailREMOVE.com> wrote: >>> >>>> My g/gfather ,born ca 1853 was described in the 1911 as an army pensioner. >>>> He served practically his whole time in Ireland and then India >>>> I have found several alternatives from Free BMD as to where and when he died. >>>> Presumably his pension ceased when he died, so can anyone tell me how I >>>> can find this information? >>>> >>> Generally in the National Archives at Kew. See e.g. :- >>> http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/britisharmysoldierupto1913.htm >>> [soldiers] >>> http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/britisharmyofficerbefore1913.htm >>> [officers] >>> >>> Note that FreeBMD only covers England and Wales, he would only have >>> needed to be away for the weekend to escape inclusion. >>> >>> for Scotland :- >>> copies of films of death register indexes are available at various LDS >>> family history centres, the electronic version can be searched in >>> www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk >>> >>> for Ireland :- >>> see www.familysearch.org for an electronic version of the deaths >>> indexes up to the 1950s. >>> >>> Mann :- >>> http://www.manxbmd.com/ (third party electronic version of indexes) >>> >>> However, if he was domiciled in England and Wales and left estate >>> requiring probate or administration then wherever he died he should >>> feature in the PRFD indexes which can be viewed (up to 196x) in >>> Ancestry and compared with your list of possible death index entries. >>> >> I have his army record which goes from his enlistment to the time he was >> discharged. >> However what I am looking for is the date at which his pension ceased to >> be paid. >> Is this >> This will then give an approximate date of death which will cut down the >> number certificates I will have to buy. >> > If there is a match in the PRFD indexes then that should give you the > actual date of his death and maybe the place. Can you give us his name > and birth year and last known whereabouts ? Am I correct in thinking > you don't have access to Ancestry ? > His name was Thomas Aldridge, born 1853 in Braughing,Herts., living according to the 1911 census in East Ham with his son Jesse. He serve in the army from 1869 to 1888 most of the time in India. That is the last sighting of him. Jesse was a lot easier to follow into the future.