An Unusual Request - Silverdale

[Keith]

Right, this is going to be a rather unusual request.

Is there anyone out there who has a male relative born in Silverdale, or it's immediate surroundings, on the 26th of August 1890, and who has vanished off the face of the earth?

I don't want to muddy the waters by giving any names here at the moment, but the gentleman I'm researching can be traced back from his death in 1952 as far as the 1911 census, where he gives his place of birth as Silverdale, but before this there is no trace whatsoever of him. More than one family member has tried, over the last four years, but he appears to have been invisible! I've now come to the conclusion that, for whatever reason, there has been a change of name somewhere down the line.

If you do have a mystery man on your family tree who matches the criteria I would love to hear from you.

Cheers,

Keith.

[trish1120]

Unless someone is related then without a name I dont think anyone else can be much help.

Good luck

[CaroleW]

Does the 1911 entry definitely show Silverdale Staffs as there is a Silverdale in Lancs.

Presume the birthdate is from the 1939 register.  If a married man - any clues from the marriage cert?

Is he with any family in 1911?

Why not give the name?

[ColC]

The 1891 census for the area is on https://www.freecen.org.uk, you could look there but as Trish posted if you give the name you might get a better response.

Colin

[Ruskie]

So are you saying that you can't find him from birth until the 1911 census when he was about 21 years old?

You don't have him as a one year old on the 1891 census?

There could be any number of reasons for a change of name - illegitimacy, mother re/married, orphaned/foundling, criminality, misspellings of surnames, etc.

Does he name a father on his marriage certificate?

[Gadget]

It seems a bit odd not to give a name as he died 69 years ago.

[Keith]

Unless someone is related then without a name I dont think anyone else can be much help.

Good luck

Thanks Trish.

That's why I'm looking for anyone who might be related. No one else can help.

[Keith]

Does the 1911 entry definitely show Silverdale Staffs as there is a Silverdale in Lancs.

Presume the birthdate is from the 1939 register.  If a married man - any clues from the marriage cert?

Is he with any family in 1911?

Why not give the name?

1911 definitely shows Silverdale, Staffs.

No clues from the marriage certificate. The father named does not exist.

He is not with family in 1911.

No point in giving the name he went by in later life as it's not pertinent to this query.

[Keith]

So are you saying that you can't find him from birth until the 1911 census when he was about 21 years old?

You don't have him as a one year old on the 1891 census?

There could be any number of reasons for a change of name - illegitimacy, mother re/married, orphaned/foundling, criminality, misspellings of surnames, etc.

Does he name a father on his marriage certificate?

As mentioned above, the father named on the marriage certificate does not exist.

No trace of him at all pre-1911, which is why I've come to the conclusion that he changed his name. But, of course, without his original name I can't find him on any record which would point to the change of name!