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Thanks to both.  Yes I have tried under everything I can think of.  I suppose it was a bit much to expect others to find what I haven't been able to but thank you all for the help.

Interesting about the Ann Muir Jen .  I know it doesn't help but it would satisfy my curiosity if I knew where Angelina was in 1901.  I'll go and have a look.

Thanks for trying Claire, yes that is the address my grandfather was born at in 1900 and married from and is the address given on Agnes' death.

Agnes was my gg grandmother and I'm trying to find her and her daughters on the 1911 census.  Now I've tried every means I can think of for a long time now and haven't found her.  I'm thinking that she was probably missed off the census but before I give up I thought I'd ask for the help of you kind people a perhaps fresh eyes might help.

She was born Agnes Laing c1851 in Scotland, the reason I'm so keen on finding her in 1911 is the hope that a more definitive birth place is given.  I do have a family in mind for Agnes by process of elimination but without a place of birth I'm reluctant to add them to my tree.

Anyway as I  said, she was born Agnes Laing, daughter of William Laing a  Blacksmith and married William Muir in Newcastle in 1872.  They had several children including 2 daughters Alice and Angelina who are also missing from the census.  I know they are all alive  as I have Agnes' death cert for 1923 and both girls marriages after 1911. 

William died in 1895 and in 1901 Agnes seems  to be in the workhouse in Newcastle (the age is slightly out but I think its her).  She does die in the workhouse in 1923 but her address is given as her sons house in Newcastle so I'm thinking perhaps she was a patient rather than an inmate.  Anyway I've searched through the workhouse census in 1911 and there's no sign of her or her daughters.

Angelina btw marries under the name of Lena (I thought I'd had a breakthrough when I discovered that but it hasn't helped). This particular troublesome young lady isn't to be found (by me anyway) on any census since she was a baby.  I do have both of the daughters marriage certs -1914 and 1916ish (I'm away from my records) and had hoped to locate them with the addresses from there but they weren't there in 1911.

Any help, advice or suggestions would be gratefully received.

Hi Yorkieboyl.  I haven't been on this site for a very long time but just spotted your post tonight.  John Elgy is my Gx3 grandfather and my mother was also an Elgy before she married.

I'll send you a pm if I can work out how to and if I can help in any way I'd be delighted to.

Hi again.

I'm descended from their son William who married Ruth from Essex, I dont have anything on their marriage though I'm afraid. 

I have information on Robert and Tabitha although its only what I've gleaned from the censuses online and marriage index.  I have Robert marrying Jane Scott and moving to the Sunderland area.  Tabitha seems to have married William Wilkinson in 1810 - both have several children. 

As I said, I only have this information from census.