1st/2nd Engineer on the waterways

[Sonmor]

So I guess back to the drawing board of looking for Elizabeth Tonkin & Joseph Nicholls - Boiler Maker in Middlesex at the time of Arthur's birth 1861..grrr! thanks for your investigating, sometimes it is best to have a second pair of eyes after you have been looking for over a year.. Oh and finding out where Arthur may have done his engineers apprenticeship?

[keyboard86]

So I guess back to the drawing board of looking for Elizabeth Tonkin & Joseph Nicholls - Boiler Maker in Middlesex at the time of Arthur's birth 1861..grrr! thanks for your investigating, sometimes it is best to have a second pair of eyes after you have been looking for over a year.. Oh and finding out where Arthur may have done his engineers apprenticeship?

2 disappointed people (include me)! It could well be he learned his skills from his father, as a Boiler Maker would have needed those skills to carry out his work.

If he was born/living in Middlesex ie Shoreditch/Bethnal Green etc, the 1861 Census is notorious for missing pages for that year in London?
Keyboard86

[Sonmor]

Thanks so much, and I didn't know about the pages missing from 1861 census Middlesex.. I shall keep searching for my elusive Elizabeth Tonkin and Joseph Nicholls - has to show up somewhere!

[keyboard86]

Hi again, if you click on search above and enter 1861 census-missing pages, originated by samatk, their is a link to show the affected areas in London ie

One other thought, it may well be, that Arthur was NOT born in Middlesex, but spent a large proportion of his youth in the area, and so thought that was where he came from, I have instances in my own Family Tree!

Keyboard86

[Sonmor]

One other thought, it may well be, that Arthur was NOT born in Middlesex, but spent a large proportion of his youth in the area, and so thought that was where he came from, I have instances in my own Family Tree!

Yes, I am more inclined to think that my Nicholls and Tonkin connections lays in Devon as there are a tonne of them and a lot of them were seafarers..Now I think that I can rule out Staffs, I shall look there I think, again thanks so much.