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Hi there,
We're currently researching the Kadansky family who lived in Hull from 1870s onwards.
So far we've been pretty successful in tracing people (luck of having an unusual surname probably) however two ancestors seemingly disappeared in the early 1900s and we cannot trace what they got up to later in life or their deaths.
Louis Oscar Kadansky b 1879, last recorded in 1901 census in Sculcoates, Hull.
Rudolph Broderick Kadansky b 1883, last recorded as witness at wedding in Hull in 1909.
Obviously the 1911 census might be able to help us out when it is revealed (bit of a long wait) but has anyone else got any ideas about what could have happened to these two? How likely is it that death certificates would go astray? We've looked at records of British deaths abroad at PRO and this has not been fruitful.
Help!!
Binky and Chewy
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no gems of advise, sorry! Just sympathising with you, as I think we all have some ancestors of this sort - you trace their life so far and then they'disappear' but dont seem to die!
I tend to accumulate a list of them, known as the 'death' list. Every now and again (I'm talking maybe every 2 or 3 years) I go to the FRC in London and plough through the index books and jot down any 'possibles' for their deaths. If I have no more info to help narrow them down then they go back on the back burner till some new info comes to light.
Just keep in mind that there is 100% certainty that they did die sometime. There is always the possibility that they went abroad, or changed their name
If you keep researching other members of the family - looking at anything and everything, no stone unturned, you may get clues. E.g a siblings will may mention them (therefore they were alive at the time it was written) or it may mention their children 'son of my deceased brother' or something like that, so you know they were dead then.
Have you looked for marriages for them? And children? do you know their occupations - are they likely to be in trade directories?
Keep exploring every avenue, you may get to the release of the 1911 census having found nothing more, but the fun is in the looking!
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were all these replies helpful to your requests ?
Regards
Sarah
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Louis Oscar Kadansky b 1879, last recorded in 1901 census in Sculcoates, Hull.
Changed his surname to BAILEY
Appears 1911 with wife and son.
Marriages Dec 1907
BAILEY Louis Oscar Sculcoates 9d 498
STONE Ruth Sculcoates 9d 498
son
BAILEY, ERIC THOMAS STONE
GRO Reference: 1911 M Quarter in SCULCOATES Volume 09D Page 139
Death
DEATH 4 MAY 1964 • Perth, Western Australia, Australia
John
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Rudolph Broderick Kadansky b 1883, last recorded as witness at wedding in Hull in 1909.
Changed his name to James Bailey
Marriage in South Africa
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BP-QS44-V?cc=2821281
Died
Deaths Jun 1951
BAILEY James 68 Hull 2a 194
John
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Hello,
Thank you for the helpful information and enabling me to piece together what happened with these ancestors. I've not been focused on research since the original post in 2005 so this update is invaluable.
BB