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I have been searching for Joseph Freer Wright, born Lincolnshire in 1887. I have found him in 1891 and 1901 but despite trying all possible options for his name, I can't find him in 1911. He died in 1917.
I know I can't ask for look ups, but does anyone have any suggestions please?
Lynne
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Have you tried searching for family members (particularly children) he might have been living with? We couldn't find my Italian gg grandfather on the 1911 census so resorted to searching simply for his eldest daughter's name first and middle name, and found him badly mistranscribed under the surname "Murgritta" (it was actually Margiotta).
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Hi
Is Joseph the one who was a soldier, and died in WW1
Margp
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Thanks for your replies. He didn't marry and had no children. Yes, he died in WW1.
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My grtgrandad was dfficult to find in 1911 because he put himself down as MR Herbert Armitage and his wife as MRS... so he came up on the on-line system as Mr not as Herbert. I found him by searching for his children by name.
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Thanks for your replies. He didn't marry and had no children. Yes, he died in WW1.
I wonder, if he was in the Military before WW1, and was away for the 1911 census,
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Have looked on Findmypast and there are several Joseph Wright's from Lincolnshire there of the right age.
As said before 'less is more'
When searching on both Ancestry and Findmypast I find that if I start out with just the surname then add the first name on 2nd search you can usually tie down more easily.
But as said before mis-transcriptions can cause a lot of the 'missing' from census results.
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Thanks for your replies. He didn't marry and had no children. Yes, he died in WW1.
I wonder, if he was in the Military before WW1, and was away for the 1911 census,
The 1911 Census was the first one to have a full enumeration carried out of the British Army serving overseas, including details of wives and families. Those serving at home have always been enumerated.
Stan
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I hadn't considered military prior to 1914. He was in the Lincolnshire Regiment during WW1. I am not very good on military history, so could anyone suggest where I might look?
I have tried searching on all possibilities of name, initials and birth place. The actual place is Alkborough in Lincolnshire, but that can be transcribed as all sorts!
Thanks for your continued help.
Lynne
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I found my father, whose entry had been severely scrambled in the 1911 census (Enigma machine standard!) by entering his Christian names and date and place of birth!Incidentally the 1911 census taker had messed up that entry too! Waiting in anticipation for 1921 release to see if they score the hat trick! :)
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Hi Redroger
I read your post and decided to start again and search on any variant and look at anything that might be a possible. Having searched pages and pages of information, I have not seen anything that could be him. I even found a Joseph Freer which was a bit spooky, but sadly not him.
Not sure where to go next!
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What worked for me was to enter other information which I knew to be correct, i.e. place and date of birth, plus Christian names.Good luck
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I recently noticed a family missing from 1911. They hadn't moved as the father was listed in the London electoral registers for that year and for several years after.
I decided to try and look for him in the schedule books... And there he was with another male and one female at the same address, his wife and son same as in 1901. I noted all the other families living close by and tried to search for them too hoping it would eventually lead to my missing family... But they were all missing!!!! It seems only the lower numbers in the street have been scanned and the top half of the street is missing.
Hope you have better luck
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I found my father, whose entry had been severely scrambled in the 1911 census (Enigma machine standard!) by entering his Christian names and date and place of birth!Incidentally the 1911 census taker had messed up that entry too! Waiting in anticipation for 1921 release to see if they score the hat trick! :)
Unsure if I have read your post correctly. I understood that the 1911 Census ,unlike previous census's were filled in by the householder, rather than the enumerator. Or were you refering to modern day transcriptions ?
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I've 'missed' a census here. I was out wild camping at the time and the local census person did not know how to do that... So that census info is not 100%. I suspect the same can be said of any census.
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I found my father, whose entry had been severely scrambled in the 1911 census (Enigma machine standard!) by entering his Christian names and date and place of birth!Incidentally the 1911 census taker had messed up that entry too! Waiting in anticipation for 1921 release to see if they score the hat trick! :)
Unsure if I have read your post correctly. I understood that the 1911 Census ,unlike previous census's were filled in by the householder, rather than the enumerator. Or were you refering to modern day transcriptions ?
Unfortunately my own enigma machine had scrambled the post. It should have read "Incidentally the 1901 census taker had messed up that entry too! Hence the reference to a hat trick! Amending so it becomes clear.
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I found my father, whose entry had been severely scrambled in the 1911 census (Enigma machine standard!) by entering his Christian names and date and place of birth!Incidentally the 1911 census taker had messed up that entry too! Waiting in anticipation for 1921 release to see if they score the hat trick! :)
I dont seem to be able to amend the entry but the reference to 1911 after incidentally should read 1901!!!