No wonder I couldn't find him in the US!
When I found him in 1911 saying b Chicago I didn't look for him anymore in the UK.
So well done to you all for looking there.
ShaunJ, I can't open Mary Newill v RTN 1904, however it fits in with me finding a marriage for him to a Mary Kennedy in 1888 in Chicago. No doubt he left her in the lurch & she was trying to catch up with him to get support. She died the next year I believe in 1905 aged 29.
Don't think the drunk & disorderly RTN is mine as he should have been in the US in 1901.
Yes Sandra I believe the family in Medway Union Workhouse was his, but where was William, his father? I can't find him in 1861.
In 1841 his family was living in Portsea & Wm his father was a shoemaker.
In 1851 they were living in Chatham & Wm was a policeman.
In 1861 they were in the workhouse. Martha stated wife of Wm Newill, shoemaker, but he wasn't living in the workhouse with them.
In 1871 they, Martha now widowed, are in lodgings in Portsea & Martha called herself a policeman's wife. She died in 1878 in Portsea.
Are these 2 different families do you think?? What's going on here, can anyone understand it???
In 1871 RTN signed himself up in Portsmouth for the Navy, since he probably needed a job now his father had died.
Thanks to you all for all this help, I've certainly made progress here.
Anymore comments from anyone please??
Amberly