Hello list. Can anyone help me to locate the whereabouts of the records from Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital, now no longer in existence? My grandfather Christopher Dixon died there or before being admitted to there en route from Beggars Bush Barracks where he suffered the heart attack that killed him in 1946. Neither his death nor his birth in 1898 were registered, so it’s really difficult to find those vital records of this man, except that my mother knows he lived because she was his daughter! And thankfully I have some of his WW1 army records. At Joyce House in Dublin where I went recently to try to get my grandfather’s death cert, they told me I could register his death and then get the cert (which sort of defeats the purpose), if I could provide them with certain information. Some of the supporting information required is a medical certificate stating the cause of death. Over 60 years later, that’s a bit of officialdom which is somewhat hard to obtain, but the Superintendent Registrar’s Office recognises this possibility and will accept a statement by the person registering the death, witnessed by a Peace Commissioner or Public Notary as to the ‘probable cause’ of death. Funeral expenses and receipts are another good thing to provide, as is a Memoriam (sometimes called a Mortuary) card, or a photo from the cemetery of the headstone inscribed with particulars of the person in question. Is there anything else I should know before attempting to register my grandfather’s death? Debby Raymond, Queensland, Australia