There is a certified death for:
Name: KELLY, George William
Registration District: Whitehaven
County: Cumberland
Year of Registration: 1873
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at death: 31
Volume No: 10B
Page No: 393

With George's bapt being in April 1841 he probably wouldn't have turned 32 by the first quarter of 1873, so a possibility?

Was Mary Elizabeth Kelly aged 3 in 1871 your ancestor? Where was she in 1881?

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