On 9 Jan 2010 at 3:02, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Listers, > Can anyone help with the following query. > Jane Grundy was the wife of a Methodist Minister and I believe she was > buried in ELLAND probably between 1881 and 1884, but even up to > 1891 I can find no record of where she died (probably not in Elland) nor > her date of burial < Jane appears with George in the 1881 census at Elland with Greetland, aged 62. By 1891 George is a Methodist Minister at Prestwich, Lancs, and has remarried to a wife called Anne. FreeBMD has a potential marriage at Prestwich in the Sep quarter of 1887 of George Grundy to an Anna [sic] Stott (vol 8d page 544). FreeBMD also has a death at Halifax in the June quarter of 1881 of a SARAH GRUNDY (vol 9a page 305), aged 62. Was this, in fact Jane, is a question I would be asking myself? In my experience, the forenames SARAH and JANE were very, very common combinations for females, especially in Victorian times. Another possibility: in 1871 George and Jane were in Newcastle, with two daughters both born in Staffordshire. As a Methodist Minister, George obviously got moved around quite a bit. FreeBMD has the death of a Jane Grundy, aged 61, in the March quarter of 1882 at Weardale, a North-eastern registration district (vol 10a page 163). Did she return to the north-east to die and be buried? - though her birthplace was Warley, Halifax, thus it seems unlikely. There's also the death of a Jane Grundy at Prestwich in the Sep quarter of 1886 (vol 8d page 291) of a Jane Grundy, as her age is given as only 31 this cannot be her, unless an error was made in the GRO Indexes. My instinct would be to take a chance and obtain the death certificate for SARAH Grundy at Halifax in 1881, since the age is exactly right. Is it not possible that Jane was actually born as Sarah Jane but preferred to be known just as Jane all her life? I cannot find a Sarah Grundy at Halifax in the 1881 census, which also suggests there may be something in my theory! My apologies if you have already considered all this but you didn't offer much detail. -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE