Can't find a registered death

[Snowyred1958]

Edward Ross McAlonan (mmn Barnet)
born 3rd April 1886 Ballymoney, Antrim.
Died 9th May 1950
Buried at Belfast City Cemetery
I can't find his death registered anywhere, can anybody help plz Tia

[Pam Downes]

Have you checked the Northern Ireland equivalent of the civil registration index?
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/go-groni-online

Ditto the equivalent on ScotlandsPeople, and the GRO Index for England and Wales.
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/c...ates/login.asp

[Snowyred1958]

Yes I've checked there

[Pam Downes]

If he's not registered in any of those three, nor in the Eire registration records either, then you have to consider either that the name has been misspelt/misranscribed in the index, or that the date of death is wrong. Where did you get it from? Family members' memories have been known to be faulty.

I know that a lot of the Irish newspapers are available through the British Newspaper Archive, though I don't know what years are covered. Worth a search.

[wimsey]

Belfast newspapers give that as the correct date

update - his death registration is on the NI direct site, without middle name

Registration Number D/1950/57/1007/86/39

Edward McAlonan 9 May 1950

[Lesley Robertson]

Have you checked spelling variations? Some search engines treat Mc/Mac names as the same, sometimes you have to search them individually. They were frequently interchangeable as far as clerks were concerned.

[wimsey]

in case you didn't know (but I expect you do), Edward Ross McAlonan's wife Annie Elizabeth died 10 June 1973 at her home 24 Runkerry Road, Giant's Causeway and is buried at Roselawn cemetery, Belfast. I got that information from a newspaper but I note Ancestry has the same information.

Can't seem to access NI Direct website at the moment.

Belfast City Council has burial records
https://online.belfastcity.gov.uk/Bu....aspx#MOVEHERE

[Snowyred1958]

Thanks Wimsey, no I didn't know Annie's death date. Thanks for that. The website will be of great use Thanks.