elusive marriage

[PaulineJ]

How many of the candidates (aged ~17 at the 1891 census) can be traced to 1901?
Even at 17y he's likely to be starting as a printer. Nothing to lose by  trying.

[loltel]

thanks pauline i shall try them out now, i think when you are looking so hard you always seem to overlook the most important pointers 

[loltel]

hi

apparently another rellie has gone down this root of elimination and print connection and came up with

RG12/211  1891
178 drury lane, london
william is here with sister kate and BiL henry john Mckerley and family, william is a binders lab and henry is a print compositor. no mother listed
william born liverpool in 1873

1881    RG11/131
24 grafton st, st anne, soho, london
emily -wife/marr -born halifax, yorkshire
kate born halifax, yorkshire 1867
william 1874 - liverpool

1871 scotland census

emma - born 1844 halifax, yorkshire - agents wife
kate - born 1866 halifax, yorkshire
caroline - born 1869, somersetshire

so a father never appears on a census

rellie is in possesion of marriage cert for kate and henry MCKENZIE, this gives address as carnaby st, london and FATHER as WILLIAM (deceased) occupation - traveller

and a death cert for emma thompson, she dies in endell st workhouse infirmary in 1890 her address is 178 drury lane, london - informant was workhouse

so where william snr and caroline ended up i know not.....

there is only 1 kate thompson birth for 1867, halifax but the cert reveals mother emma but father james and she can be traced right through, so wrong kate.
william, scholar born liverpool 1873