Looking for what happened to great-grandfather around 1870-1880

[Deirdre784]

Is this Maria Harriett in 1891, still in East Street, Hastings...

Maria H Corke, Head, Married, Female, 59, 1832, Nurse, Middlesex, England
John H Corke, Son, Single, Male, 35, 1856, Jeweller, Hastings, Sussex, England
George W Corke, Son, Single, Male, 25, 1866, Postman, Hastings, Sussex, England
Frank Corke, Son, Single, Male, 19, 1872, Assistant Dentist, Hastings, Sussex, England

RG12 Piece number 764 Folio 132 Page 48

Deirdre

[AMBLY]

And in 1901, enumerated as COOK

5 Alfred Street, St Mary Magdalene Hastings, Sussex
RG13 -Piece 870 Folio 40 / Pg21
Head: Maria H COOK 69, married, monthly Nurse, b London
Dau: Maria E COOK 43, single,  Housemaid (domestic), b St Leonards, Sussex
Grandson: Lovell RUSSELL 3, b Udimore, Sussex

Cheers
AMBLY

[Dick Cork]

Thank you all again.
I'd already followed Maria Harriet and children through to their respective conclusions. One son is my grandfather. If great-grandfather Theophilus finished up in a lunatic asylum, then oh!dear. But it still doesn't explain why I can't find his death record.

[Dick Cork]

Thank you, Ambly. At least the Births, Deaths & Marriages people got the surnames right.
Similar to the Cork/Cook problem was the one I encountered with my mother's paternal side. Olliver quite often came out as Oliver.

[ShaunJ]

Another newspaper mention - in the Maidstone Telegraph of 22 January 1870: a man gave himself up to police at Tunbridge after deserting his family in Hastings on 3rd January. He identified himself as Thomas Cork, 39 a shoemaker, according to the paper.