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dcmbarton
19-11-2007, 08:23 PM
I am looking for a death of a Mary Jane Brunton (nee Barton), but have had no success, I've got it narrowed down quite a bit, but still can't find any even likely candidates.

She was born in 1867 in Hartlepool. In 1871, she is recorded with living with her family at 28 Edward Street. In 1881, she is at 7 Thorston Street in Stranton. In 1891 she is back in Hartlepool, and living at 7 Victoria Place. In 1892, she has an illegitemate daughter Elsie, born in Stockton. In 1901, her parents have moved to Bristol, and she is incorrectly transcribed as Mary Burton, and working as Housemaid at the Grand Hotel in Broad Street. Bristol.

By November 1909, she has moved back to Hartlepool, where she married James Brunton (b.1858). In February 1918, she registers the death of her mother, Mary Ann Barton, and is living at 101 Cornwall Street in West Hartlepool. In February 1927, she registers the death of her aunt, Elizabeth Barton, and is living at 125 Back Lynn Street.

By 1927, she would already be 60, so we've narrowed it down quite a bit. I haven't located a death for her husband either. And her father is listed as 'desceased' in 1909, though actually appears to have just dissapeared.

Any ideas where next?

David

Wirral
19-11-2007, 11:29 PM
I am looking for a death of a Mary Jane Brunton (nee Barton), but have had no success, I've got it narrowed down quite a bit, but still can't find any even likely candidates.

By 1927, she would already be 60, so we've narrowed it down quite a bit. I haven't located a death for her husband either.
Have you looked through the full GRO index of deaths from 1927 until the 1970s? If you have & Mary Jane & her husband are not listed, then could they have emigrated? Or the husband might have died & she has remarried.

dcmbarton
19-11-2007, 11:41 PM
Yes I have searched. Best I can come up with is a Mary Brunton who died in Hartlepool, age 81 in Q2 1947.

I haven't ordered the certificate. Would it be likely for them to miss the middle name out?

David

tommy166
20-11-2007, 12:02 AM
It seems a good possibility as the age is only a year out and it's in Hartlepool. The person registering her death may not have been a close relative and not known her full name, or just been uncertain at what would have been an upsetting time. I'd take a chance and order the certificate.

Tom

dcmbarton
20-11-2007, 12:04 AM
I've found a burial record so I've e-mailed the lady who deals with the burial records in Hartlepool to see what Mary's residence was to see whether it fits in with anything. Still nothing on her husband though.

David

dcmbarton
21-11-2007, 02:40 PM
I enquired to the Hartlepool register office via the Tees Valley archives, to see whether the death certificate for Mary Brunton said she was either the widow or wife of James Brunton, but it didn't. I enquired about the residence when she was buried, but it wasn't an address I'd come across before.

Doesn't seem very likely, unless the informant didn't know she had a husband, or didn't know his name, and she'd moved out of any of the family houses.

David

grendav2001
01-12-2007, 01:38 PM
northern daily mail
west hartlepool
23 june 1947

brunton

on june 21, at 'morland', hart station, hartlepool, mary brunton, aged 81. funeral private.