Where did he go/come back?!

[LizK]

Hello

I hope I'm posting in the right place.  I have a relative, Mark Liberty Head who I've found sailing from Southampton to New York on the SS Majestic on 4th April 1934.  According to the detail, he was a valet who lived at 28 Elm Road, East Sheen London before sailing and he was intending to live in Detroit with a niece.

I have him living back in the UK in the 1939 Register with his wife Ethel Susan Head in Devon and I even have his death registered in 1953 in Richmond.  Yet I can't find any record of him returning to the UK.  Is this because lots of records are lost or incorrect or is it me?

Thanks
Liz

[Kiltpin]

Lost / not (yet) transcribed / took passage on a cargo vessel / smaller shipping line / hand written entries / foreign shipping line.  All of these are possible and more.

I have lots of relatives who must have "beamed across" from one continent to another.
Regards 

Chas

[LizK]

Thanks, really frustrating though isn't it!  What with relatives pretending to be married and never actually doing so, then others using a tardis to come back across the Atlantic! 

[Kiltpin]

Thanks, really frustrating though isn't it!  What with relatives pretending to be married and never actually doing so, then others using a tardis to come back across the Atlantic! 

Prime example, Liz - My family and I came back from Canada, via New York, on SS Ryndam of the Holland America Line. A Dutch shipping line. Although all the paperwork was in English it is stored somewhere in Holland, between the dykes and the clogs and the tulips! 

Regards 

Chas