Death notices, funeral notices and obituaries are among the many useful offerings in the newspaper archive, and whenever I am lucky enough to find such notices they prove a wonderful addition to my records. Of course not everyone who died had such notices in the papers. Families had to pay for them, and for many it was beyond their means. It is always worth checking, however, to see what might be available.
When my great grandfather James Nicholas Clark passed away in 1924 there were two death notices inserted in the newspaper - one from his family and one from the Masonic Lodge of which he was a member.
Had it not been for this Masonic notice, I would never have known that James was a Mason. It is also worth noting the spelling error - the heading of the Masonic notice has CLARG, not CLARK. The family notice also gives me his occupation - Overseer at Brighton City Council, and both notices give his address and the cemetery in which his grave is located.
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