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I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to help me to find other records relating to a couple I am researching.    The details I have are as follows:

I have a marriage certificate for Charles Harrison 21 years, Batchelor,  a ships carpenter, father William Harrison, a Shipwright.

The bride is Ellen Griffield 19 years a spinster of no occupation. Father shown as George Griffield (deceased), a coach builder.

They were married in Middlesborough on 28th September 1896, both shown as living at 47 Davison Street, Middlesborough.

I had hoped that getting this certificate was going to give me a few leads, but I cannot find these people anywhere in the census records.     (I did find one William Harrison, a shipwright, living in Kingston upon Hull in 1891, which raised my hopes, but he had no son called Charles, apparently).  I recognise that Charles, although young, could have been a servant somewhere else, but he doesn't appear in earlier years either, when he would have been too young to be working.

In the 1911 census, I have found Ellen Harrison, shown as Head of the family, but married and no sign of her husband. All three children are there.     That is the only positive record I can find.

If anyone can have a look at this one and see if they can find anything I can't, I'd be most grateful.

I'm looking for some information on the above military Company, which I can't find anywhere on line.   I know that French POWs were sometimes pressed into English Regiments.   Is this what it was?

I'm researching a trial that went to the Hampshire Assizes in Lent 1814, where three Revenue officers were accused of killing a French soldier, one Private Pierre Lapuy, in a fight in Lymington.    He was described as being attached to the above Company, on duty at Hurst Castle.

From what I can see, Hurst Castle was being used as a military hospital during this period, for soldiers returning from the Peninsular War.    It may be that Private Lapuy was a POW, and a patient at the hospital, rather than 'on duty', as it said in the paper.    If so, he would seem to have been on the road to recovery as the fight in which he was killed took place, allegedly, in a brothel in Woodside, Lymington.

I'm interested in any further information about this one as I think that one of the prisoners, who was acquitted, was possibly my gggg grandfather.

Thanks.

My apologies if this has been asked elsewhere.     I have had a look and cannot see anything.

Does anyone know whether or not Ancestry.co.uk will have any access at all  to the 1921 census, or does the contract that has been awarded to FindMyPast mean that that is the only means anyone will have to access it?     I'm assuming it does, as that is what contracts usually mean, but it does seem very expensive and a bit of a pain for Ancestry subscribers.

I've got a weird one here that I've been trying to solve for years and years.    I'm wondering whether anyone on the boards here might have any theories on it.

The circumstances are as follows:    My great grandmother emigrated to London, England from  Cork, Ireland in the early 1880s.     She travelled with her husband and young child.    On the journey, her husband slipped and fell, hit his head and died.

I have been told that he is buried in Plymouth.   My grandmother and aunt said they had once visited the grave, but could not remember where it was.     I have checked every cemetery I can find in Plymouth, but there is no record of him.    Also, there is no record of his death either at sea or in England.   (Name Patrick Collins, born Cork c 1852).

My great grandmother settled in London, remarried, and life went on.    But what on earth happened on that journey?    Was Plymouth a regular stopping point for ships travelling between Cork and London?     Did she get off the boat with his body, find accommodation somewhere, organise the funeral, bury him and then carry on to London?

It all sounds so very odd.    I'm wondering if anyone else has ever heard of a similar occurrence?    All theories gratefully accepted.

Would anyone know whether or not this building was roofed?    I have seen photographs and it seems as though it is, though I have read elsewhere that Buffalo Bill did his shows in the open air?    Would anyone know?