Oh yes, my mistake, I meant administration. Now seems like both brothers have gone missing completely, I somehow feel there is a connection. Although I would be surprised if Robert abandoned his wife without good reason. They must have grown up together in Jersey. Letitia's godfather was Charles Fowler senior (Robet's grandfather and my 2 x great grandfather), so the families were close. Letitia's family went back to London in the late 1870's and it looks like Robert followed here there and the married in London in 1893. They would have been in London although a different area when older brother Charles came back from Australia. To change from being a seaman to secretary of a public company seems quite a leap, so I suspect that he was involved with Charles who had set up his own insurance company in 1906 with a very lucrative and unusual package for himself (according to accounts of a court case in 1912).
