help finding someone in the census

[*sara*]

i have finally hit a snag!

i am tracing alfred tompkins in middlesex,

i can find him on the 1901 census living with his wife ada and 3 children:  sidney, ethel and ralph

and i can find him on the 1891 census as a lodger in a police station ( he was a police seargent)  and i cannot find him in the 1881 or 1871 census.

he was born in 1868 in middlesex ( 1901 census says edmonton but birth cerftificate says kensington???) and his parents are alfred tompkins and sarah tompkins (nee cook)

Can anyone please help???  I have looked and looked!!!

sara

[PaulineJ]

You have a birth certificate (from 1868?)
what's the street address, what's the father's occupation?

Pauline

[*sara*]

hi pauline

i am not sure of these as i don't know what the cert says:

maybe address is 18 Towistock Terrace?

can you read them?

sara

[Tati]

The address looks like Tavistock Terrace Notting Hill to me.

Wonder if this is them in 1881 ? 
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1881&indiv=try&h=13231080
RG11/42 92 28
The handwriting is dreadful. No idea what dad's occupation could be.

[meles]

Tavistock! It's still there.

meles

[yonderpeasant]

occupation looks like lather.would imagine works with a lathe.

[Tati]

I was thinking of the occupation on the 1881 census actually (can you access the image, Yonderpeasant?) but I've never come across Lather either! Would it be anything similar to a Plasterer? 

Bit of a long shot but in 1871 there's a Johnson family at Lonsdale Rd Kensington who *could* be a match - dad Alfred is a Plasterer. Their neighbours are a Cook family too.

By the way, I see Alfred's name was Tomkins when he married Sarah in 1868.   

[*sara*]

yes, this does look very likely

i did do a search for tomkins aswell but didn't find them.

thank you very much, it has been driving me crazy!  how do i know if it is definately them?  i do think it must be as there are not other possible matches.

can i search for a road on ancestry or just by name?

[Tati]

The 1881 census can be searched by address on ancestry