Did someone say fairly recently that you can't search censuses by address on ancestry? I wanted to compare their transcription with FindMyPast because I can't see what became of a child with a strange forename and I was looking for ideas for how it could be recorded.
I am looking at 24 King Street Gosport in 1911. In the household are Hellen Lailey, age 34,(actually 41) laundress, born Sasbury (should be Sarisbury) Hampshire, and two of her illegitimate children, both born in Gosport.
The 9 year old daughter's name has an alteration on the schedule and FindMyPast has her name as 'Joshsome' May, which isn't a bad guess. The birth indexes have 'Tootsome' May N Lailey, although the new GRO index has 'Tooborne'.
The 8 year old son Robert Joseph Lailey, born Gosport, living in Gosport, should have been easiest to find but ancestry can't locate him even without a surname.
Can anyone see these three on Ancestry's 1911 census?
By 1921 Helen/Ellen has married Edward Charles Hitchcock, (although he is not at home) and is still in King Street with Robert Joseph Newman (now using his father's surname) and her stepson Edward Hitchcock. (In 1901 Robert Joseph Newman senior was in the household, but he died a couple of years later.)
