I suspect the best way forward would be to obtain the marriage certificate You can minimise the chance of a wrong certificate by ordering with no GRO reference which allows checking points to be added, such as her fathers name, if they find a match you get the cert, if not you get a refund There are no deaths registered during the first war years for a lady of that name and approx age In WW2 the civilians who died during the bombing should be on the CWGC It sounds like you don't have the date of birth of Rosa to allow the 1939 NIR to be checked further Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 29/06/2016 17:14, DavidTennant wrote: > Nivard > She appears on the 1891 census as Rosa age 3months and born at Paston > My mother, her sister, was born 1895 at Edingthorpe so who knows? > 1901 census father is listed on the Scarborough Hospital return. A patient? > It's sometime since I concluded the marriage to Clarke was hers., so > I've forgotten the reasoning. You are right to raise doubts. > Further to the train crash my understanding was that it was during WW1. > I too have searched the fatalities in WW1 train crashes with no success. > A death, if it was her, in Hackney in 1940 could have been as a result > of the blitz perhaps? > A bit of background > The Fishers moved to Scarborough c 1899 leaving my Mother with an aunt > in Suffield. She, a person of her time, never mentioned Rose(a). The > family moved from Scarborough to Canada in 1912 leaving Rose and another > older sister who was getting married in UK. Rose obviously moved back to > Norfolk. > David