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That’s not a genuine obituary. It’s a bot site.

From speaking to someone who knows the family, he thinks he killed himself.

Or Chamberlain.

I can't find anything.

Huw Rees and David Baron – I can't search names in the GRO unless I have years of birth, otherwise we're just poking around in the dark. Derek Smith – there are several people born in 1927 who died in 2021. It's too common a name to search. Burnell Tucker – does he even live in the UK? Most of his credits seem to be from the States. Doreen Mantle – we'd know of her death pretty quickly.

Nothing.

Couldn't find any of them in the GRO. Though for a few of them, we don't know their married names, and without that information you can't really know their fate in many cases.

IMDb have now changed Don Kennedy's page with the correct birth and death dates after I submitted evidence.

I've updated his Wiki using the EU Football site (as transfermarkt is user generated like Wiki so it isn't considered reliable). That means the entire 1954 Swiss FIFA squad is now wiped out.

None of them appear in there.

Fuck off.

My friend who is clued in to the Royals says she has Raynaud syndrome. Comes and goes with good days and bad ones, can be very painful but it doesn’t really affect overall mortality.

Nope. I think "ER" = "estimated residence (dates)". So it's their belief she's still at an address in Illford as of the start of this year. In theory if she died tomorrow then next year it wouldn't say "ER 2002–2023" for that address. It would just stop at 2022. 192 is incomplete though. One thing that's often missing is nursing homes, so when someone disappears from there it doesn't mean they're dead necessarily, just that their address isn't publicly recorded. It's a good tool to find out if someone is alive, not so good a tool to find out if someone is dead... if that makes sense.

Doesn't appear in the GRO Index. Listed on 192: "Elaine C Schreyeck ER 2002-22 Ilford, Essex" So still alive in 2022.

I can give you the honest answer and tell you she was probably pushing up daisies from before either of us were born. Or, if you'd like, she's living it up on a remote desert island somewhere at 120, sipping on tequila sunrises with Elvis, Lord Lucan and D. B. Cooper. Which would you prefer?

I’ll assume that’s a joke.

Checked him earlier. Doesn’t appear, but he’s still listed in the residency records on 192.

None of them appear. More than half of these I wouldn’t expect to die off radar anyway.

The GRO Index has been updated to include all deaths up to the end of 2021 (remembering that not all Dec 2021 deaths will be included if they weren’t registered until 2022). Anyone want any names checked?

Clive Abdulah was born on 5 June 1927. His Wiki page was vandalised by a (now blocked) IP.

Right, time to address this one. Don Kennedy (wiki / IMDb) IMDb says he was born as Donald Kennedy in Beaver, Pennsylvania on June 8, 1920 and died on October 30, 1991 (aged 71). This is utter nonsense. The Don Kennedy who was born in Beaver, Pennsylvania was the American radio personality, who was born March 2, 1930, and is still living. I can't find a single record of a Donald Kennedy born on June 8, 1920 so I don't know where that comes from. As for the death date... the Donald Kennedy who died on October 30, 1991 was a DONALD JAY KENNEDY who was born on 24 June 1919 and he died in Minnesota. So IMDb is very confused. So there is virtually nothing online about this guy anywhere. No media coverage, obit etc. so we need something to start from. On this fan website about The Rifleman, a series which Kennedy starred in, it repeats the incorrect information that he was supposedly born on June 8, 1920 in Beaver, Pennsylvania. However, it also states that he was the son of actor Tom Kennedy (wiki, 1885–1965). Let's assume this to be true for now, and prove it later. Here are two pics of Don Kennedy in The Rifleman. And here's a picture of Tom Kennedy, also featured in The Rifleman. If you ask me, they're a spitting image of one another, but let's check. Using info on Wiki/IMDb, Tom Kennedy was married to Frances Marshall and had four children with her. We find them all listed on this family tree; Mary (b. 1916), Madeline/Madelain (b. 1918), Donald (b. 1921) and John (b. 1928). Using the mother's maiden name of Marshall, we can pull up all their birth records to prove this. Mary Madelain Donald John Note they were all born in Los Angeles, CA, where their father would have worked as an actor. NOT in Pennsylvania. Don's record confirms he was born on September 3, 1921 as DONALD F. KENNEDY. Mary died aged 11 in April 1927. Her FindAGrave page here cites the flu pandemic as the cause of her death. Next to fall was the father, Tom, in 1965. Here's his newspaper obituary: It mentions the survivors being his widow Frances, his daughter Madelyn (or Madeline/Madelain), and two sons; John and Bud. Bud must have been a nickname for Donald/Don. It mentions that both John and "Bud" are "film workers". There really is nothing on Don/Donald/Bud after this point, minus his filmography. His last credit was in 1988, which would put him around 67 when he retired. Family trees on Ancestry state that he died in 2014 or 2015 but they don't list a date and it looks like information based on contributors trying to recollect a year more than anything else. Using his DOB of Sep 3, 1921, we find his death information listed on MyLife. He died on April 3, 2013 (aged 91) in Del Mar, CA. In the 2014 Special Issue of SAF-AFTRA magazine, he's listed on page 96 as Donald Kennedy and it confirms the date of death is correct.

I believe so. There's a 2022 book on Google that refers to him in the current tense. Also similar publications from 2009 and 2011 which do the same.

Obit for Sir Francis McWilliams (wiki), aged 96, Scottish engineer and Lord Mayor of London (1992–1993). Mentioned before in the QEII thread as one of just a handful of knights who was older than the Queen. Notably disqualified for driving at the age of 89 in 2015 when he was boozing in his Jaguar outside the Bank of England... as you do. Note: McWilliams was the last living Lord Mayor of London born in the 1920s. The oldest now was born in 1935, so quite a jump!

Worth noting that the death of Pauline Stroud means that the only credited cast member of Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) is now Anne Heywood (b. 1931). Joans Collins (b. 1933) and Jean Marsh (b. 1934) were uncredited cast members.