I have three that are driving me insane lol.
One:
My Maternal nanas father................
He seems to have been born a fully grown adult in 1902.......... cos before that he isnt anywhere!
(and 1902 is just that 1 year late for yet ANOTHER cencus.......... he says he was born in 1875....... but he doesnt have a birth cert - and he isnt on any Cencus (under the name he gave anyway!) until the 1911 one ..............and then he is only a 'boarder' in a boarding house!
On his Marriage cert to my gt-grandma he claims to be a widower - but I cant find any previous marriages with his name any where in the country.
I am starting to think he had a different first name on his birth certs and cencus's and dropped it somewhere along the line .............. I would LOVE to know who he realy is tho!
LOL if anyone has 'lost' a Henry Childs supposedly born in Walsingham Norfolk in 1875 ........... well I found him in my family tree in 1902!
The second & third mysteries are kind of similar to each other!
Two:
My Dads mum always told me she had a brother Charlie who "Died Young".
I found Charlie Smith on the 1901 cencus with his parents - born 1899.
I have him now on the 1911 cencus - living with his parents and younger siblings
My dad was born in 1938 and his cousin in 1939.................... by which time Charlie had dissapeared, and no one ever seems to have talked about him (apart from Nana telling me about him)
Three:
Dads family again!
on the 1891 Cencus I back tracked my gt-grandads family and 'discovered' not one but two elder brothers we knew nothing about.
I found a death for one of them, David but the other John William was very much alive in the 1901 Cencus, and was not only alive but had my gt-grandad, his widowed step mother, her two daughters (his half sisters) and his step mothers sister living with him - and running his own business.
In the 1911 Cencus John is still in the same shop, now living with his Step mother, one of his Half-sisters (the other died) and another of his step mothers sisters - my gt-granddad had married & had my grandad and his younger brother by this time.
Again, no one in the family ever mentioned John, my grandad would have known him and never mentioned him, and I knew his half sister Elsie, she talked of her family - but never mentioned John to anyone, and she would have been old enough to remember him...........
After 1911 I have ne family history of either of dads uncles ............................ I suspect they may have perished in WW1 ................. but with names like John Evans and Charles/Charlie Smith I am realy struggling!
Gaille
