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Help Before I Go Crazy!!!
Can anyone help me find a missing man on the 1891 census? He could be John, Arthur or Maurice (or any combination thereof) and his surname will either be Hudson or Mirfin ..... I have tried every spelling I can think of but am clearly missing something ............... we was born in Dec 1875 in Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire - and is liekly to be in Yorkshire as he was there in 1891 - and in 1898 he marries in Ecclesall Bierlow ...... although in the missing years he could be elsewhere I suppose, but think I have search the whole UK and it's driving me crazy!!!! HELP!!! TIA
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.No neither Dotty ........ he married Elizabeth Spencer in 1898 - and his parents were Samuel and Ellen Hudson. Samuel died in 1872, and so was not his father - and Ellen remarried John Mirfin in 1876 when John (Arthur or Maurice!!) was a baby .....so it's not known who his father was. Ellen died in 1884 - and John (Arthur or Maurice!!) is missing from then until he marries in 1898 ...........
Dotty - you are a star - I looked through a few pages either side of Mary J, but have not scrolled through the whole of it ............. thanks for your help. I have searched for him every which way on ancestry with every possible spelling and wild card I can think of - I knew you would have ideas!! Thanks .............. fingers crossed x
ecclesall brierlow has 42 enumeration districts plus the union workhouse (I've checked there and he's not an inmate)
at the top of your census search window you will see in green writing
Yorkshire>Ecclesall Brierlow>district ?, click on the Ecclesall Brierlow name and the screen opens a list of enumeration districts with numbers to the left and description of district written to the left,, don't click on the descroption click on the district number and start to scroll throigh the film of the ORIGINAL return, not the transcription, it will need patience, but that's how we had to research 20 years ago before t'internet!
If he was still in that area you should find him, plus you will get an idea of the distributuon of the surnames there
at the top of your census search window you will see in green writing
Yorkshire>Ecclesall Brierlow>district ?, click on the Ecclesall Brierlow name and the screen opens a list of enumeration districts with numbers to the left and description of district written to the left,, don't click on the descroption click on the district number and start to scroll throigh the film of the ORIGINAL return, not the transcription, it will need patience, but that's how we had to research 20 years ago before t'internet!
If he was still in that area you should find him, plus you will get an idea of the distributuon of the surnames there
Although aged 16 he probably wouldn't be at school in 1891 - they had to work much earlier than they do now - girls became servants at around 11 or 12. If, as you say, he was well educated, he may well have been away at boarding school. 'Missing' people could be in the workhouse or an asylum He could also have been in hospital - I've seen patients and inmates on the census just with their initials. Quite a few of mine just refuse to be found.