Good morning Can someone please help me with the John Oldroyd Gibson, architect 1891 and grandson of John Oldroyd. He was still alive in 1894, signing the probate of his stepfather John Tyzack Hedley and then disappears and no death date found? Albie Gibson

Albie: The obvious place to look is FreeBMD, which covers deaths anywhere in England or Wales. Perhaps you have already done that but in case you haven't, I have done so. Your problem is that there will be just too many John Gibsons for anyone to make any sense of them all, so I have limited my search to death registrations for John O Gibson, of which there would not be many. In fact I found only four, with ages corresponding to births in 1923/24, 1875/76, 1870/71 and another 1875/76. I strongly suspect that, allowing for ages as recorded in various documents, including death registrations, to be often a year or two out, the one apparently born in 1870/71 may well be the one you want. That is John O Gibson who died somewhere in the Essex SW Registration District at some time during the June Quarter of 1957, aged 86 - according to his death certificate on which the age would be as reported by whoever registered the death and who may not have known exactly how old he was. I would recommend you to obtain the death certificate, either from the local (Essex SW) registrar or from the Family Records Centre in London (ref 5a 157 for this but not for the local registrar) and see what his occupation is given as. At 86 or thereabouts he would surely have been retired, but from what occupation? "Retired architect" would help a lot! In case this is unsatisfactory or you don't think it worth following up, as he may have died abroad, you might get somewhere by enquiring at the RIBA (Royal Institution of British Architects). I don't know what records they keep but they might just have a note, if he was a member, of where and when he died. If, however, he died abroad, then perhaps the Consular returns, which produce similar indexes to the GRO ones but are not included in FreeBMD, might help. If he was a highly prominent architect, then perhaps you will find him in "Who's Who" during his life and in "Who was Who" after his death. Geoff Nicholson -----Original Message----- From: Albie via <northumbria@rootsweb.com> To: northumbria <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 8:25 Subject: [NMB] John Oldroyd Gibson (1869-?) South Shields Good morning Can someone please help me with the John Oldroyd Gibson, architect 1891 and grandson of John Oldroyd. He was still alive in 1894, signing the probate of his stepfather John Tyzack Hedley and then disappears and no death date found? Albie Gibson .. Please quote the minimum necessary to put your reply on context. Please introduce yourself at the top of every post. The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message