I feel I should know this but ... to try and find out if a person who died in 1927 left a will is it necessary to go to the Records Office in Gloucester? This chap was a well known butcher in Stroud and according to the family he shot himself (no known reason). I suppose it is likely that the cause of death was "accidental". It is likely there was a mention of this incident in the local paper but again, I don't know how to go around finding out if there was. Any advice please? Margery

Margery, Have you tried a search for the will on :- http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/genealogy/Search.aspx Can't help with a quick fix for the paper report, suggest it may be a case of trawling through the local paper, whatever that is - Gloucestershire Echo - maybe ? Regards Bob Margery Whitham <margery@whitham.name> wrote: I feel I should know this but ... to try and find out if a person who died in 1927 left a will is it necessary to go to the Records Office in Gloucester? This chap was a well known butcher in Stroud and according to the family he shot himself (no known reason). I suppose it is likely that the cause of death was "accidental". It is likely there was a mention of this incident in the local paper but again, I don't know how to go around finding out if there was. Any advice please? Margery _____________________________________________ Browse the list archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ Keyword search - any or all lists: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message