I would appreciate it so much if any Rootschatter could help me break down a very long standing brick wall. Every avenue I explore becomes a dead end.
Charles Frederick Schellenberg was born in Sunderland to Eleanor Bulmer and Charles Frederick Schellenberg in 1901. There was no marriage for Eleanor and Charles Frederick Snr despite giving her name as Eleanor Schellenberg on the child's birth certificate.
After many years I have traced Eleanor, finding her on the 1911 Census married to a George Harrison Portlock. They married in c1903 after the death of George Harrison Portlock's first wife. At that time they were living in Hector Street, Gateshead, Durham along with George's family to his first wife. Young Charles Frederick would have been about two years old when they married and on the 1911 Census he appears as a 9 yr old with the name Portlock and listed as son. It seems that at some point after this, most of the family moved to Cuckfield in Sussex. Eleanor and George both died there, but I have drawn a complete and utter blank as to what happened to Charles Frederick, which is where my interest lies, as he is the one directly related to our family.
I have even contacted members on another site who share the same interest, but for some reason they have chosen not to respond to my message.
Any help or ideas would be so much appreciated as I think I have explored every avenue open to me, perhaps I have missed something !!
Many thanks,
Doric