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MarieC
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Ouch, Romilly!!
I take it your grandmother can't/couldn't shed any light on his mysterious disappearance!
If he had another wife and family, he could have changed his name or anything!!  
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hepburn
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I have my GGrandfather here in 1871 and 1881,I have pretty good idea he went back to Canada in1886,and died there in 1903!it's his beginnings I would love to know!
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MarieC
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Barbara,
How did I know you and Ernest would turn up on this thread LOL  You ought to briefly set out again where you have looked for him, just in case someone has another bright idea!  He's probably with my Edward and Eleanor somewhere, laughing! (You've absolutely demonstrated how mad you are - but I knew that anyway!!! )
Romilly, perhaps you ought to post his photo and name! You never know, you might have a distant cousin here!!!  
MarieC
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JLo
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I have the same problem as you Gadget - my gg grandfather born in 1856 is nowhere to be found in 1861 (nor are his parents, siblings or grandfather) and reappears in 1871. I have spent HOURS and HOURS hunting for them
Perhaps we're looking for the same man
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukMarshall, Beeson (Herts) Lo(e)wenthal,Kavanagh, Maxam (London, Birmingham) Harrisson, Matthews (London, Essex) Poulton, Philbrick (Essex) Guest, Timmins (Staffs) Raynes/Ryall (Ireland, Birmingham) White (Bucks) Gunn (Scotland, Lancs, Essex) Ison (Tamworth, Birmingham, USA, Canada) |
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jillruss
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Gt Gt Grandfather Shepherd 1827-1910
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I have a George Bishop who slid off into the sunset around 1861 never to be seen again!
There he was - a jolly old ag lab (well, I like to think so!) on the 1851 census, living in Keyingham in East Yorkshire, working on the land and having a copious number of children.
Then - piff paff puff - by the 1861 census, he's gone! His wife Ann and family are still there (she says she is 'married' not widowed) but there is no sign of George. No death to be found, no George anywhere else on the 1861 census (there's a George Bishop in Kings Lynn who was born in the same place as my George, but he's a red herring! for tis not my George but - I think - a cousin.)
There is a clue as to what happened in that Ann has the baptism of her last child - James - on the IGI in 1858 with only her name as the mother; no father's name. Surely, if James was George's son but George had died between conception and birth, his name would still have been entered?
So, did George do a bunk after Ann had done a bunk-up with another man? (Sorry!!)
Or was he abducted by aliens? 
Jill
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See Surname Interests Table +
Major brickwalls:
John Frith mge to Fanny, Bucks? c 1798
Bathsheba Boothroyd bp W Yks c1802
John Bishop bp E Yks c1758
Joseph Symonds mg to Sarah, prob Berks c 1735-40
John Horwood mg to Martha, Berks c 1735-40
Sarah Sculler bp Berks area c 1675
Paul Phillips bp Berks/Bucks c 1720
William Newell bp Berks/Bucks/Oxon c 1765
Richard Troughton mg to Jane, Westmoreland c 1732
Mary Simon bp Shrops c.1795
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Gadget
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There are quite a few EDs missing in the 1861. I heard that it was something to do with the transfer of responsibility from the Home Office to the Registrar General's Office. The HO kept them in poor conditions (and wouldn't hand them over) or they were found in the basement of the Houses of Parliament or something like that
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katherinem
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I've got a Robert West (1837-1910) who is buried in Worthing cemetry, together with his wife Harriett Lambert (1834-1910) and a grandaughter Lily (22-Sep-1892 to 25-Jun-1906). The only problem is that Robert and Harriett had no children. I've found them on every census but no trace of any children. Mysteriously, they reckon they had a son called Charles who was born in Brighton or Worthing in 1856 (it depends which census you are looking at). He turns up for the first time on the 1881 census living in Epsom, Surrey and by 1891 he is married with chidren in Epsom. Meanwhile, Charles daughters are living with their alleged grandparents in Worthing. How they managed to have grandchildren without having any children of their own is a mystery. downside
It is very interesting that Charles names one of his sons Robert Henry!! Also Charles was born 2 to 3 years before Robert and Harriett's marriage in 1858. Possibly born illegitimately, but not by Harriett
Anyway hopefully something will turn up for everyone on this thread, I have today, smashed down a brick wall on my husbands side, which has had me stumped for years; the mother of this child having had 5 husbands (that I have found) didn't help!! By the way MarieC, I have you to thank for this, you had a thread on "Genealogy Gods" and you sent some luck; it took awhile to get here, but it was well worth it. Thanks 
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Bladen (Tipton, & Yorks), Teece, Cooke(Coalville), Stott (Staffs), Carr, Armitage, Henrickson, Lisle (Yorks), Pailing, Stott, Leach, Davies (Llanasa), Taylor, McDonald, Garry, Brackenbury, Brand, Rewston Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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tigtag
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The Shah - Captain William Osburn (GGGrandfathe)
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Evening all
My most elusive (or is that most annoying - because I have let her get to me  ) is my great grandmother Sarah Rosa Naomi Osburn b Hull 1880. I have her on all census and her birth.
She married Charles Nicholson in 1905 and had my gran in 1914. Alhough my gran was registered as Rhoda Thomas Nicholson her father was actually Henry Thomas (whomever he may be ) She left my gran c1919 in (we think) a Catholic orphange in Sheffield!!
I have recently discovered that SRN had four children with Charles that she also abandoned. I am in touch with their children though and we have a reunion planned in a couple of weeks
This is the most exciting find I could have ever anticipated and I am totally over the moon - our familes were totally unbeknown to each other and the only shame is that the siblings are no longer around
HOWEVER, it doesn't answer the question as to where did the bl**dy woman go ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH 
Roll on 2009
Jo
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KathMc
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Wow, four children. That is amazing. My ggg grandmother apparently abandoned her daughter, but I don't think she had any other. Maybe I better look into that now.
Kath
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Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA
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