Who is this boy?

[KarenM]

Maybe his first name is Rueben?

[sami]

I've tried so many combinations and variations and come up with all sorts of odd results - trouble is there is no way of knowing which 'odd result' is the right one 

Have started to wonder if he didn't come to Canada as an orphan but was orphaned here. Can anyone check deaths around 1900 with a surname of Buben/Rubin or any of the other possibilities?

sami

[chinakay]

Maybe his first name is Rueben?

Been there, done that, wrote the book and got strangled with the t-shirt, Karen

[KarenM]

I just found a Harry Ruben born in 1892, but he's counted for up to 1921 and lives with parents

[Rosinish]

This is unbelievable 

It would have been bad enough dealing with illiteracy in that period in the norm but to have someone whos 1st language wasn't English as an Enumerator............well     

[Rosinish]

I hear you, KN

You know sometimes they wouldn't cross a T but cross an L instead...I tried Galen but no luck.

China..........close with Galen 
Planet of the Apes/Aliens 

[chinakay]

Good catch, ammack...forgotten about that

I missed Harry Rubin, Karen, because I had the Exact box checked. This Harry was born in Ontario and I've been looking for England. But now I'm wondering...what might the East family consider England??

Some of the 1911 census is very hard to read 

[dbree]

Hi,

Just found a passenger list for David, Ida and Rex going to Australia September 1901.
Portland Maine to Liverpool, then London to Freemantle, Australia September 27, 1901.
David and Ida appear on an Electoral Roll, and there is a death for Ida May. No sign of our boy. So...where did he go at age 10. Both David and Ida May (Cobleigh) have numerous siblings. Perhaps he was taken in by one of them. 

Cheers,
DB

[Jacquie in Canada]

Aaaand...nothing.

I can't even find the family in 1911 or later. Worldwide search for David Chester East, Ida May East, Rex Linwood East. Nothing.

I suspect this whole mob climbed back into their buried spaceship and went home to Alpha Centauri.

I found the East family sailing from Portland, Maine to Liverpool in Sep 1901 and then to Fremantle, Australia later the same month. The boy in the census wasn't with them.

Jacquie