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I have been searching for my grandfather's death (William Richard Kill) for more than three years....nothing. He left my grandmother in the 1920's and the only thing we really know about him is that he went down south, probably to Hastings, and a cousin thought he might have got married again, after my grandmother died (have no idea why she thought this). Today I have found a marriage 10 years after my grandmother's death for a William R. Kill in Bournemouth !!!!! I have no idea if this is my grandfather or not, but I have sent for the marriage certificate giving his father's name as a checking point and also his middle name as a checking point. Despatch date is not until the 10th May, but this is the nearest I have come to finding any information at all. I have sent letters and made phone calls to many Kill's over the last few years. PLEASE, everyone, keep your fingers crossed that it's him (although I have no idea whether this will get me any nearer finding his death, even if it is him). Kath. x p.s. I've posted on this board as it's the one I use most.

Everything crossed - good luck - its a very long wait for that cert in situations like these jess

Thanks Jess, I don't know how I'm going to wait that long. Just hope I don't get the dreaded email telling me it's the wrong one. Kath. x

Well Kathleen, I just hope this does turn out to be your grandfather, waiting on the certificate is the problem, every day you wait for the post to arrive just hoping it will come today!! It will be worth it when it does come though, best of luck. I still keep reading mine over and over again. Betty

Fingers crossed for you - hope its the right one

Hi Kathleen hope it is him. I have had a lot of situations where i have had a breakthrough. HAve you tried putting advertisements in teh local paper of where you think his realtives could be. Recently my grandmothers fatehr contacted us after and ad and she was illegitimate! Also i posted one in the Liverpool Echo and was trying to contact someone in Liverpool. The womans realtive living in the wirral saw the ad in the echo and contacted her....and i can't forget the 86 year old man who i got in contact with!!! BEST OF LUCK! Stephanie.

Good luck Kathleen Hope its him Linda

Thanks everyone... Steph, I've tried all sorts, but as we really don't know for certain where he went it's difficult. It is all so long ago too. My grandfather was born in 1881 and if the marriage I've found today (in 1941) is him, he would have been 60 years old then. I know it's a long shot, but grasping at straws!!! Kath. x

Got everything crossed for you Hope its the right one Zoe

Fingers and toes crossed I hope it turns something up for you Germaine x

Hi Kath I'm rooting for you..... nothing beats a big breakthrough, and I hope that's what it'll be when that certificate comes through your door! All the best Lysianne

Thanks everyone. I keep going back onto Ancestry and looking at the marriage reference just to make sure I haven't dreamed it. I really wish the GRO were back to the 4 or 5 days that they used to take to get certificates out. 10th May seems an age away, and it's going to be such a let down after all that time if it's not him. Kath. x

Everything is crossed for you hope it is good news June x

The marriage certificate I ordered nearly four weeks ago finally arrived today and YES - it IS my grandfather. I now have the address of where he worked in 1941 which was in Bournemouth and not Hastings as we had thought. However the lady he married lived in Hastings, so maybe he moved there. This is the first thing I have found out about him in 3 years of searching and I'm over the moon, although I don't know if it will get me any further in finding where he died. He was 60 when he got married and the lady he married was 42, so I have a feeling there probably wasn't any children from the union, that I could trace forward, but at least I have two addresses. DON'T GIVE UP LOOKING, everyone, our ancestors are out there somewhere!!! Kath. x

Kathleen, i hope he is your grandfather...go easy on the nails as you wait or the cert! Lib:))

Hi Lib, You haven't read my message properly - The certificate HAS arrived today and it IS my grandfather. I'm over the moon at the moment!!! Kath. x

Hi Kath.. Whoops i missed the important bit! Im really pleased you have had a break through, it's a great feeling when the wall comes tubling down.. Lib

Kathleen as he waited unntil th edeath of his first wife before getting married is there not the possibility that they did have children before this time? I'd be tempte dto trace them forward to their deaths and see if that throws up any children as witnesses on the death certs. Congratulations by the way - bet you're ove rthe moon to finally have an answer to where he got to Zoe

I'm bored so I'm searching for deaths by th eway my other option for the afternoon is doing my tax return so I'm much happier doing this Z xx

Zoe, You could be right about them having children before they married. He actually left my grandmother in 1926 (I've seen the maintenance order for desertion she took out against him with the actual date he left), so he had plenty of time to have kids. Don't know why he waited 10 years after my grandmother died though before he married. As for deaths - I haven't looked for the death of his second wife (as I didn't know till today that he actually had one), but I have searched through the death indexes at record offices, at the LDS Family History Centre near us, on Ancestry, and before that spent a fortune on 1837online, I don't know how many times but have not been able to find a death for William Richard Kill. I'm wondering if they might have gone abroad. Anyway, thank you for looking at deaths for me, another pair of eyes is always welcome. He was born in 1881, so I suppose he could have lived up to 1981ish, but more likely sometime up to the 1960's, and now I know he was still alive in 1941. Thanks, Kath. x