On 10/08/2014 11:02, mvs via wrote: > Does anyone have access to newspapers for May 1905 for Potters Bar, > Middlesex. > > My grt. Uncle Harry Edmed died from Meningitis at Myrtle Cottage, Hospital > Road, Potters Bar, South Mimms on 14 May 1905. He was only 9 poor little > mite. I have the Death Cert. but would like to know if there were any obituaries > for him. His parents were John & Agnes Edmed (neè Barter). It would depend on the standing of the parents. Obits were not automatic and tended only to be placed if the family could afford to pay for one. Have you tried the British Newspaper Archive site? -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk