I'm seeking further info on a distant relative , John Dickson CROSS .
With such a distinctive name, I naively thought he'd be easy to find .
Here's what I do know from an extensive search of Ancestry.co.uk etc :
Born NORWICH , July 8th 1852.
Baptised August 1st 1852 at St John de Sepulchre , Norwich
He was the 7th & youngest child born to William & Susan (or Susanna) CROSS (nee CATTERMOLE)
1861 Census they're all at Rose Lane , Norwich .
1871 Census he's living at Allen St, Islington with his elder married sister and her family (Jane & William ELGOOD ), and another unmarried sister Emma Elizabeth CROSS.
Then he goes off-radar for 3 census, re-appearing in 1911 , married to Elizabeth Alice (nee Sharp - born in Arundel, Sussex abt 1860) and living at Catherine Grove , Greenwich .
Occupation Gun Factory Labourer , Woolwich Arsenal .
Working backwards and searching for his wife in earlier census, I can only find an E CROSS , born Arundel and abt the right age , at London County Asylum , Dartford in 1901 .
His father William Cross died at Rose Lane Norwich Sept 1880 and his elder brother Robert hanged himself at Rose Lane almost exactly a year later, Sept 1881. Mother Susan remained in Norwich upto 1881 Census but may have died in Islington later in 1881, just after Robert's suicide.
I've found a Wills & Probate entry dated June 1927, leaving £84 8s 8d to Louisa Mary SHARP (spinster), who was probably Elizabeth's sister. Address given as Edric Rd, New Cross ..
I'm hoping someone has him in their tree - they were a big family - or can suggest where I might start looking again to fill in this missing 40-year period of John's life ? He was my 2x Grt-Uncle .
Any info and advice appreciated , On- or Off-List , please .
Thanks
Andy