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Hi all

I am struggling to find this family on the 1921 Census. Can anyone help please?

In 1911 they lived at 13 West Shore Street, Buckhaven, Fife:

Michael McCarthy (37)
Mary McCarthy (34)
Margaret A. McCarthy (7)
John McCarthy (6)
Michael McCarthy (2)
Andrew McCarthy (8 months)
Mary E Gonoud (15)

I know the family later moved to Dundee, but I am not sure if they would have been there in 1921 or still in Fife (or somewhere else).

I have both Michael and Mary's birth records and they would actually have been 41 and 39 respectively. Michael (senior) appears to have gone by a few names (Carty, then Carthy, then McCarthy, and finally McCartney) but the others always seem to go by McCarthy. I tried searching the various surnames anyway, with no luck.

Andrew McCarthy died in 1912 but all the others were alive in 1921. Also on the 1921 Census should be Mary (or May) Kate McCarthy, born in 1913 in Buckhaven, Fife.

Mary Ellen Gonoud was the niece of Mary McCarthy. She married Dominic McAlear in 1918 and is on the 1921 Census living at 16 Dempster St. Dundee. I know from later records that the McCarthys lived at 18 Dempster Street but they are not there in 1921 (the same page Mary Ellen and Dominic are on shows number 18, and a Peter Taylor and family lived there). The witnesses on the marriage record are not McCarthys, so no luck narrowing down an address that way.

The next record I have is from Mary Kate's marriage in 1933. She lived at 18 Dempster Street, Dundee. So there is nothing for any of the McCarthys between 1913 and 1933. Here is all the information I have on the family:

Michael McCarthy
Born Michael Carty, 31st August 1869, Cloonagh, County Longford, Ireland
Married Mary Gonoude (as Michael Carthy - 153 Overgate, Dundee), 14th April 1902, St. Andrews Cathedral, Dundee, Scotland
Died 4th August 1933, aged 63 (as Michael McCartney, 18 Dempster St. Dundee)

Mary McCarthy
Born Mary Gunood, 18th February 1872, Tullamore, Ireland
Married Michael Carthy (as Mary Gonoude - 136 Overgate, Dundee), 14th April 1902, St. Andrews Cathedral, Dundee, Scotland
Died 12th September 1938 aged 66 (18 Dempster St. Dundee)

Margaret Ann McCarthy
Born 19th August 1903, 2 Victoria Buildings, Methil, Fife
Married John Herd (34, divorced), 18th July 1942, Scoonie, Fife, aged 35 (she was actually 38)
Died 1986, Dundee, aged 83
No known children

John McCarthy
Born 1905, Buckhaven
Died 17th August 1955, aged 50. Lived at 75 Grassmarket Edinburgh.

Michael McCarthy
Born 1908, Buckhaven
Died 1988, Dundee

Andrew McCarthy
Born August 1910, Buckhaven, Fife
Died 13th December 1912, aged 2. Lived at 62 East High Street, Buckhaven.

Mary Ellen Gonoude
Born 14th May 1895, Tullamore, Ireland
Married Dominic McAlear (bachelor, 22) 16th December 1918, St Andrews Cathedral, Dundee (aged 23)
1921 lived at 16 Dempster Street, Dundee
Died 1983, Dundee

Mary Kate McCarthy
Born May Kate McCarthy, 16th September 1913, 62 East High Street Buckhaven
Married James Bowes 22nd July 1933, aged 19, St Joseph’s Church Dundee. Lived at 18 Dempster St. Dundee.
Died 1989, Dundee

I have tried searching for relatives I know to have been in Scotland at the time, in the hope the family may have been staying with relatives. Mary McCarthy had a few siblings

Andrew Gonoude (Mary Ellen's father) - married a few times but in 1921 he resided in Inverkeithing, Fife and had started to be known by his mother's maiden name, Ryan.
John Gonoude - married to Bridget Healy and in 1921 was living in Hawkhill, Dundee
Catherine Gonoude - Married John Kelly and in 1921 they lived at Overgate, Dundee
Dora Gonoude - Married Joseph Burry or Berry and in 1921 they lived at Overgate, Dundee

No sign of any of the McCarthys. Michael McCarthy had no known relatives in Scotland. I have looked through all McCarthys on Scotland's people and while there are many Marys and Michaels etc. none match when you look at the other names.

So I think the family are simply missing from the Census. If anyone is able to find something I have missed I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks everyone for your help. And those retouched pictures look great Dr Dude - especially the colour one.

Really lovely restorations - thanks all for your time, I really appreciate it 

That's such an improvement McGroger, thank you very much!