Finding source for death in France

Question

Hi

Been looking for a death record for the following profile

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hook-1129

Currently shows as Y_Somme, Picardie, France has been Y, Somme, Picardie, France but not recognised by system as a place would like to confirm with death source  before mark as false error on suggestions list.

Have had no response from PM

Janet

Answer 1

I checked the Somme online archives-you can find them here.  Y has decennial tables but unfortunately only begins offering scans of the acts themselves starting in 1839.  Curiously, there is a death listed for a Jean Baptiste Huiocq on 20 March 1828.  

The spelling of the last name is similar to Gallicized versions of the Germanic language family surnames Hook, Hoock, etc. that I've encountered previously in researching my Belgian ancestors.  I also found a child with the same surname (possibly Céline as the given name, it's hard to read), who was born on 21 October 1827 in Y.

Answer 2

It is unlikely that this man died in Y . It is a tiny hamlet .There are many thousands who are supposed to have died there but they probably didn't

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/20328/awake-thinking-about-somme-picardie-france-haunted-place-earth

Mr Hook probably died in Kent, that is where you should look

Answer 3

Here is a G2G thread discussing the "Somme, Picardie" autofill issue:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/349236/why-somme-picardie-france-is-probably-bogus-death-location?show=349305#a349305