Can anybody find Joshua Gricks in the census?

[millerina]

Please could somebody have a look for this man in the census, he is proving to be very hard to find!

Joshua Robert Gricks
b.1875 in Norwich, Norfolk  -on his 1903 marriage cert his occupation is a Fish Merchant. He married in Ely, Cambs. His father was also called Joshua Gricks, also a Fish Merchant.

I have looked in the 1881 and 1901 census, but have had no luck in finding him, any ideas where he may be?

Many thanks,
millerina

[Tati]

Hi Millerina,

He could be this Joshua Ward:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1881&indiv=try&h=16423516
RG11/1940 101 33

(marriage Jun 1876 Norwich 4b 242 Mary Ann Gricks to possibly Joshua Ward)

 

[Necromancer]

my thinking too    .... the Gricks name doesnt reappear in Norwich after 1871, when this lass was a Factory girl living in a single room in Pitt Street, Norwich St Augustine

I'd get the Birth Cert of Josh Robt - check its his mother etc..... suspect the fathers name has either been fabricated, or was an older generation relation..

[millerina]

Thanks for your replies! 

That looks really interesting, there doesn't seem to be a birth registered for a Joshua Ward, so maybe he is my Joshua Gricks!

Is there any sign of the family in the 1891 census or beyond?

Many thanks for your help!
millerina 

[Tati]

I can't see him in 1901 (but Newf will, I'm sure  ) but here's 1891:

Afraid young Joshua is in the shoe business 

RG11/1940 101 33
Heigham, Norfolk
127 Turkleish Lane
2 rooms occupied
Joshua Ward, head, wid, 47, Shoemaker
Joshua, son, 15, Shoe Pressman
Walter, son, 13, Shoemaker's apprentice

All born Norwich.

[millerina]

Thanks Tati 

That is quite a career change, from shoemaker to fish merchant ..I'll have to order Joshua Gricks' birth cert to see if that gives any more clues!

Many thanks!
millerina 

[Shirley Sweetland]

hi he's on the 1881 census age 5 with Joshua Ward Snr, Mary Ann Ward and 2 of his siblings. At Berrys yard, Norwich St James.

Regards
Shirley
Perth WA

[Dave Francis]

This has probably been spotted anyway, but just in case...

I can see the birth registration of Joshua Robert Gricks (Dec qtr 1875, Norwich) and his subsequent marriage registration (June qtr 1903, Ely).

But there's also this earlier birth registration:
Joshua Ward Gricks (Sept qtr 1867, Norwich) followed by a death registration (March qtr 1868, Norwich).

Bit of a strange coindence eh?

Dave

[Dave Francis]

1871 Norwich (St Augustine) Norfolk
RG 10/1808 folio 25 page 4

There were a collection of small households in (what looks like) Dark Entrey Yard off Pitt Street.

One of the occupants, living alone, was a Mary A Gricks - unmarried, age 21, a factory girl born in Martham.

In the very next household, again living alone, was a Joshua Ward - unmarried, age 28, a shoemaker born in Norwich.

The first Joshua Ward Gricks (1867-8) may have been their first (illegitimate child). The middle name 'Ward' is a bit of a giveaway.

Joshua Robert Gricks was probably theirs too!

Dave