Lawton - Missing in census - How is this possible?

[Tickettyboo]

Jewellery Quarter Cemeteries Project have a variety of databases that can be searched which may help you with the burial

http://www.jqrt.org/jqc/ss/ss_searches.html
Start with searching for the name which will give you the Section and Grave no then look that up

Boo

[littleem1906]

Jewellery Quarter Cemeteries Project have a variety of databases that can be searched which may help you with the burial

http://www.jqrt.org/jqc/ss/ss_searches.html
Start with searching for the name which will give you the Section and Grave no then look that up

Boo

Thank you -  that's so helpful.

[osprey]

Patients in an an asylum are often enumerated by just their initials. There is this entry in 1911

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWCT-BL5

[fiddlerslass]

There's an Isaac Norton iron moulder in the Lodge Road City  asylum age 57 in 1901 could be a mistake for Lawton

Piece    2850
Folio    162
Page number    12
Household schedule number    1

If you have Ancestry

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/16388356:7814?tid=&pid=&queryId=aacfdde6-a7e7-4cf5-ae1e-2e060976e3bf&_phsrc=DYR15020&_phstart=successSource

[fiddlerslass]

Something else weird...

Isaac " Norton " is in the asylum in 1881 with the correct birthplace of Longton Staffs, when he has been replaced by William Lawton as head of the family. Did Isaac have a brother  or other close relative called William?

I have not found a Isaac Norton bapt at Longton either.

[Tickettyboo]

and the UK Lunacy Patient Admission Registers show that an Isaac 'Norton' was admitted to Birmingham City Asylum on 9th Nov 1875 and he died there (discharge reason was death) on 25 May 1913.

As I can't find a death register entry in the name of Isaac Norton in Q2 1913 anywhere in England & Wales I'd say this record is  reasonably likely to be your man

Boo

[littleem1906]

Something else weird...

Isaac " Norton " is in the asylum in 1881 with the correct birthplace of Longton Staffs, when he has been replaced by William Lawton as head of the family. Did Isaac have a brother  or other close relative called William?

I have not found a Isaac Norton bapt at Longton either.

Gosh what a find! Isaac didn't have a brother called William. I'll have to look further into the family to see if there is another relation of that name.

[littleem1906]

and the UK Lunacy Patient Admission Registers show that an Isaac 'Norton' was admitted to Birmingham City Asylum on 9th Nov 1875 and he died there (discharge reason was death) on 25 May 1913.

As I can't find a death register entry in the name of Isaac Norton in Q2 1913 anywhere in England & Wales I'd say this record is  reasonably likely to be your man

Boo

Fantastic! I had always wondered if he was in an institution but could never find him. It's lovely to finally know what became of him.

[littleem1906]

Something else weird...

Isaac " Norton " is in the asylum in 1881 with the correct birthplace of Longton Staffs, when he has been replaced by William Lawton as head of the family. Did Isaac have a brother  or other close relative called William?

I have not found a Isaac Norton bapt at Longton either.

Do you have a reference or link to that census?