Death Notices ?

[horseshoes]

Rather a strange question I know, and I wasn't too sure which category it should live in, but here goes.

When someone dies, is there ALWAYS a death notice or obituary, or something else that is "googleable"?

Thank you.

[jackthehat]

I think the family has to place an Death Notice and provide evidence. It is to combat nasty people claiming someone has died in order to cause distress.

[Bigbad]

My Dad died in January, and his solicitor said he had to put a notice in The London Gazette.
I found the notice easily on the LG site.

[Bigbad]

..... oh, and we don’t live anywhere near London, but Dad was a Londoner.
Don’t know if that makes any difference.

[-SharonA-]

Notices from all over the UK are on here.

[murraymints]

Not obligatory

[Jackdaw33]

It's entirely up to the relatives/family. My obituary is already written.

"Jackdaw was so p****d off he's p****d off. Those of you who think that he's left a grand behind the bar had better think again.

[Bigbad]

My Dad’s wasn’t an obituary. It was a notice to see if anyone had a claim to his estate.

[maggiebee]

Think it is a choice for the family to make - certainly here in Scotland where there is no obligation to insert a death notice in the local paper.
Wonder how many people would see it anyway considering how few people take newspapers these days.

[Jonathan-Joe]

Death notices in our local daily paper are also published in its partner weekly free sheet. They can also be seen on the paper's website.

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

No, it isn't a legal requirement in England. Someone may die and be buried without any public legal 'trail'.

[horseshoes]

Thanks all.

[horseshoes]

Just one more thing........ ok so there doesn't have to be a PUBLIC death notice, but would a death have to be officially registered SOMEWHERE; i.e. the local registry or the main office of Births Marriages and Deaths , as in the one that used to be in Somerset House. Bottom line is ........ can I find out if someone has died!

Thanks again.

[jackthehat]

Do you have a time-frame in mind?

[horseshoes]

2016 JTH

[Flonska]

Assuming the death occurs in England, Wales or Scotland, it must be registered by the Registrar.

https://bereavementadvice.org/topics/registering-a-death-and-informing-others/when-and-where-to-register-a-death

If you wish to find out about a death in the past, you could try :-

https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

but the records may not be up to date.

[Flonska]

Have just seen your last post indicating 2016. The BMD website only goes as far as 1984 - sorry! If a notice has been put in a newspaper, you could try using this link:-

https://www.iannounce.co.uk/

[horseshoes]

I've looked on the iannounce site and everywhere else, or rather my cousin has, as she's a whizz with Ancestry and such like. She can't find ANY notice ANYWHERE for the person concerned. I've Googled everything i can think of too, so i was just wondering if there was anywhere else I need to check.