Which of your ancestors have disappeared?

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Carol

[infinity]

Fine! - - but don't tell anyone! 

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Carol

[a-l]

I blame that wardrobe that leads to Narnia ! I have a hair pulling out one too . John Marston bap 1757 a month after his parents wedding and that's it. Plenty of online trees have him as a convict sent to Australia but their info doesn't add up. Plus they have my ancestor, his brother married to a different wife in a different city. Neither do they reply when contacted so I'm no nearer in solving this than I was years ago.

[bicker]

Would love to find this family after having searched for years.

Emma Punnett born 1 Feb 1862 at Brickfields, Faversham. In 1871 and 1881 she was at the Workhouse at Lyminge in Kent.

Her son William Henry Punnett was born 7 May 1884 at the Workhouse at Lyminge too. In 1891 and 1901 he is living with his Grandmother Emma Punnett and then vanishes. Not to be confused with his first cousin, also William Henry born 1887 Elham who is my Grandfather.

Emma had two sons, both born at The Union Workhouse at Willesborough, John Valyer Punnett 1888-1889 and Cedric George Punnett who was baptised at the Workhouse 8 July 1890.

No sign of Emma or Cedric Punnett after 1890, not in census birth marriages or deaths that I can find.

Fresh eyes or any clues very welcome.

Heather

[Old Mother Reilly]

Back in June '09 I posted about my gt-uncle who had gone missing and this is to tell all those whose ancestors "vanish" that sometimes they will turn up - you just have to re-visit the records as new ones go on-line.  Quite unexpectedly I discovered that my globe-trotting gt-uncle died in New York in 1934, after working across the world.  He had an amazingly full life and I am delighted that his nephew is still alive to hear the story.  I feel very fortunate to live in a time where researching on-line is possible - 25 years ago the rumour of a lost gt-uncle would have remained just that. 

[coombs]

Mary Wickham born 1779 in Bolney, Sussex. She had a baseborn daughter Amelia (Mildred) in 1801 in Twineham. Mary's parents died in 1810 and 1811 respectively. But no sign of Mary after her daughter's birth in 1801.

[dowdstree]

I have 2 who have vanished into the abyss.

1. George Malcolm - my GG uncle - born Dundee around 1852. He registers his mother's death in 1876 and his father's in 1880 and after that no trace of him. Perhaps he went abroad but so far I cannot find him.

2.   George Small (nephew of the above and my G uncle) - born Dundee in 1882. I have his birth record and census records up to 1901 and then nothing. In the 1911 Scotland Census his mother states that she has had 13 children, 9 of whom are still alive. I can account for the living children and 3 of the ones who had died except George. That leaves me to conclude that wherever he went he must have died between 1901 and 1911.

Maybe I will solve the mystery of my two George's at a future date.

By the way they were the brother and son of my Avator.

Dorrie

[Rena]

I too live in hopes that a record of the demise of my father's brother-in-law will be published sooner rather than later.

His name was Charles Armit Masson who had served during the Great War, then married my aunt in Lanarkshire. The family story is that during WWII as he had naval and medical experience he decided to "do his bit" and signed on - apparently as a Cook (?). I might have got it wrong but I believe he signed on in the Merchant Navy not the Royal Navy. He perished on a North Atlantic Convoy run.

Here's a 1921 potted history of him:-  https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/roll-of-honour/3934/