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All done, thanks ever so much both of you, just got to wait till it arrives now :D

when you order cert at begining it asks you do you have GRO ref (page and vol number) say yes then you wont have to put exact date in and it will cost you only £7 Jeanette http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp

Reggie, its asking me for the date she died and I only know what we found out from the bmds on ancestry and it won't seem to accept any question marks! Do you think I should put in a rough date and hope they search around it?

http://www.gov-certificates.co.uk is where it costs £23! I recently got a full copy of my birth certificate off there too. Didn't realise you could get it alot cheaper!! Thanks ever so much you've saved me quite abit of money 2nd time around!

A cert costs £7.00............buy it online from www.gro.gov.uk Where did you get £23.00 from???????? Reg

Is there anywhere where you can view a persons cause of death without having to pay £23 for a certificate? It is rather alot of money isn't it.

The cert will give the cause of death........as known by the informant. Reg

Good to see you only lost a year though Reggie, not 5 :)

Now we've found it. I was wondering do all death certificates have the cause of death on them? This is the main reason for finding the death you see as grandma was told that her mum died of food poisoning but she also thought that was a lie so would like to know the truth.

Joanne, I can...........memory plays tricks, and also when you're a child, your idea of time is different. I'd always thought my mother died when I was 6.......once I started doing my family tree, and looked for the info, I found she had, in fact, died when I was 7. Reg

Ah ha, there it is. Thanks ever so much :D I can't believe grandma thought she was 2 when her mum died when she was actually 7!!

on th BMD just put in her name with out middle name 1940 2nd 1/4 you cant miss it Jeanette

Hey, Thanks Jeanette, thats brill. Whereabouts did you find it? I still can't seem to see it on ancestry

found it Hilda E Bruty 39 Cambridge 2nd 1/4 1940 3b 1085 jeanette

I didn't think of that Jennifer, thanks I'll go back and have another look. I'll also try looking in the 1940's Reggie.

Did you check the bottom of each page? Quite often you will find entries that have been missed out in the index have been added at a later date at the bottom of the appropriate page, very easy to miss if you have only looked at the part of the page where you would have expected to see them. Jennifer

Right.......so you have viewed the images for each quarter of the years you mention........perhaps the death was earlier or later than your relative remembers. Reg

you can look for free on ancestry BMD 1837-1983 http://www.ancestry(.)co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx Remove brackets Jeanette

Well I've tried the BMD section on Ancestry 1928 to 1939 and I'm now looking under her maiden name too on there. I don't really know where else to look. Maybe it has been mistranscribed somewhere but I don't know how to look for those. Many thanks

Before we start looking, can you say exactly which records you have looked at? You say you can't find it 'anywhere'.......where is that? Where she might have died isn't really relevant, as she had an unusual name.....the GRO records are listed alphabetically Reg