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Thank you to you both. It did accure to me that it might be a drunken spree suttontrust but at that time there might of been another reason. You see he'd met a girl who quite possibly was giving birth or getting the baby baptized at the time. His or not i don't know. He was from England and she from New York, they eventually married. The baby who was born at that time doesn't talk about his childhood and both parents are now dead. There is alot of secrecy in the family and a few questions they want answered. I just thought that this may of been the reason for deserting. He did go back to working on the ships so he wasn't fully discharged i just thought he may have been put in prison or kept from going home on leave or something. And Agnes you are right about the US records. What a complicated place the US is. It's like a merrry go round on the census records.

Thank you both again
Tracy 

Thank you
After a bit of working out what you meant i found the page and the address is on there but unfortunately the person i was hoping to find wasn't there. Thanks again Susan saving me some time.

Tracy 

Thank you to Agnes and Indi. i opened up a map and went through the district kings 1-250. Looked for a Lafayette ave brooklyn. Located it in a few district numbers 104 in particular. The trouble i'm having now is the road goes to house number 466 on distict 104 pg 18 and 448a on pg 17. Now i'm looking for number 445 and it just seems to have disappered off the face of the earth.I've gone through the districts with lafayette ave page by page. Quite alot of pages i may add. Lost count after 50. Can any one help me locate this address. It just doesn't seem to exist on paper. I've trailed through so many pages to no avail. Feel like i live in new york now i know it so well.

Please anyone help.   
Tracy

HI
On the 1930 census, where would Lafayette av, brooklyn new york come under. I'm searching by district in brooklyn but i'm having trouble trying to locate it. All the east and west ave and 115th streets. I've had a look at the districts for manhattan and there numbered from 1001 to 1249. Does any one know whereabouts lafayette ave comes under. I have tried scrolling through these and it just seems to take for ever. Just thought someone might know an easier way. Wish i lived in usa to be able to understand these streets. Please can anyone point me in the right direction.

Thanks
Tracy