Anyone know where this gravestone may have come from?

markpack · November 2020

Dumped on a street a bit up from Five Ways. Asking in case it needs a better home than being removed as dumped rubbish at some point:

HolbornFox · November 2020

You have a typo in your Instagram post.

markpack · November 2020

Thanks!

editrix · November 2020

No idea where the gravestone came from but Seago is not a common name and I wonder whether he is any relation to the painter Ted Seago?

grenners · November 2020

According to the 1939 register he lived with his wife Dulcie Doris at 54 Hanley Rd. He was a Foreman and she was a Machinist. Don't know what happened after 1939.....his wife died in 1998 in Islington. The mystery continues.....

grenners · November 2020

https://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/crime-court/pensioner-who-kept-50-cats-4-dogs-parrot-and-tortoise-in-filthy-crouch-hill-home-spared-jail-1-4748293

grenners · November 2020

Too much of a name coincidence for there not to be a connection.

krappyrubsnif · November 2020

Grenners, just out of interest, what 1939 register?

krappyrubsnif · November 2020

This has all the makings of a good Stephen King slasher movie.

grenners · November 2020

1939 register is like a census, but it was called a register, I don't know why.

Arkady · November 2020

The census was due to be carried out in 1941, but they held a partial census early, on the outbreak of war so they could issue ID cards and organise conscription and rationing. Consequently there was no 1941 census. The 1931 census records were destroyed by bombing, so the 1939 register is a crucial record of that period.

markpack · November 2020

Thanks for all the fascinating replies!

grenners · November 2020

So what you gonna do with the gravestone?

krappyrubsnif · November 2020

Can you access 1939 register (census) records? I thought they were closed for 100 years: therefore the last census year where records are online is 1911 - next year, when the 1921 census returns are made public, will be a big year for genealogists. No?

Arkady · November 2020

They released at least some of the 1939 register in 2015. Maybe because it wasn't an official census it was exempt, I'm not sure. Pretty sure it's on Ancestry, for instance.

grenners · November 2020

It is indeed on ancestry where I am enjoying a free trial to look up some family stuff.

NaomiSalinas · November 2020

This is fascinating! Any update? Has anyone contacted the local morgue?
https://www.haringey.gov.uk/births-death-and-marriages/registering-death/public-mortuary

Ali · January 2021

What ever happened to the Grave Stone?

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