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I was trying to find my ancestor Thomas Grant (b1814) on the 1841 Census. He married in June 1841 and the baptism of his child Thomas Herbert in 1845 reveals that the family lived at 5 Pulteney Court in St James Westminster. Frustratingly I can't seem to locate this address on the 1841 census - I wanted to see who else lives with him before he married and what his profession was. I read on another blog that some parts of the census are missing and I wondered if this was a part that was. However a look on FindMyPast had a list of missing areas but this didn't seem to be one of them.
I found a voting register for 1841 and rate books for 1839-1848 that show that the resident was a George Liffiter which was motre-or-less the time period Thomas was living there. In fact Mr Liffiter seems to leave the residence a couple of years after Thomas Grant moved to another address. This intrigued me - is there a connection between the two men - but I can find no record of the name George Liffiter ever existing anywhere else.
I have hit a brick wall here, can anyone help me find Thomas on the census in 1841 (his job should say furniture deraler or broker) and find out who George Liffiter was?