The April 2005 Rootschat Challenge

[sjsbc]

OK better try again that is the wrong bit of the census!!!!!!

Sue

[sjsbc]

This is my 4th attempt, I'll give up soon if it doesn't work!!
Sue

[sjsbc]

Yippee I did it!!!

Sue

[Paul E]

Great Sue - glad you didn't give up!

That surname is pretty hard to decypher.  Calling all Rootschatters!

[familysearcher]

looks like Jomville to me

Sue

[sjsbc]

Hi,

I thought it began with a D, comparing it to the D of daughter, just above,

Sue

[M.T.H]

I think it's Fornaille.

Mick

[Paul E]

Possibly Donville, then.

There's a Thomas Donville on the 1891 census, but he's 18 so probably no good... but he doesn't appear in 1901.  Living in Liverpool, single, working as a cotton porter.

Paul

[Arranroots]

The surname looks like DOMAILLE to me (I went to school with a girl of that name).

 Is there anything that says he immigrated from the UK - he could equally be French?

It would be quite normal practice for a man to arrive in the country, use up his funds and have to work for someone else to earn money before returning to his own project.  Maybe Lionel just ran out of funds?


Arranroots