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Having looked for hours through the death indexes on ancestry.co.uk for my grandfathers death details the only link I could come up with was a david hearne who died 16th april 1948 aged 57 in Nottingham.
My late fathers family originate from Acton in middlesex, so I initially overlooked the nottingham link, thinking it could not be.
Until it got to the stage where it was too obvious to me anyway that this must be him.
So I paid the £7 fee and waited with baited breath for the certificate to arrive.
While I was waiting I was expecting the usual cause of death such as heart failure etc;
Plus hopefully some address to investigate.
The certificate arrived and I opened to look, cause of death was " body found dead in river trent nottingham "
The address was listed as " 700 Hucknall road Nottingham "
It was listed that an inquest and post mortem were held.

Further investigation has discovered that the address used to be an old hospital address that may have been used as an address when the deceased was of no fixed abode, which according to what one of my family were told is what became of my late grandfather.
Contacting the coroners officer proved fruitless in that they no longer have the records, nor do the local archive.
Contacting the registry office was of some use in that I was told that he was buried in a public grave in northern cemetery in nottingham, I asked if this was what would be known as a paupers grave and was told yes.
I have been told by the nottingham archives that they have the station diary and telephone sypnosis? of calls during that time, but cannot guarantee that they may contain information regarding my search.
I get the feeling that nothing short of divine intervention is going to get this brick wall out of the way.
Even looking through the local papers of the time proved fruitless which really surprised me.
Any advice anyone?