Missing from 1911 Census

[Redroger]

Time I think to try the Christian name trick I mentioned above.

[sandgrounder]

Tried all sorts of combinations, Roger, but no luck. Am used to doing that with all the bad transcriptions on ancestry, so do it out of habit when I don't find what I'm looking for at the first attempt!

[lesleyhannah]

Do you know what number they lived in? As I say, it's obvious from the enumerators' books that the road was split between different enumerators, so I still think the records are probably there, just mistranscribed.

Apart from the number, could you give us a first name to go with the Williams, or where he was born?

[Tsu]

I had this happen to me.  I was searching for Cheshire Street and I had to find it searching with the wildcard like this cheshire* and then put Bethnal Green in the district. (FindMyPast)

It's because they were all called slightly different things.

So try searching for New Zealand* and then in district put Stockport.

[Parmesan]

I get 6 houses using the wildcard

2, 4, 6 and 287, 289 and 291

there's obviously a major problem there.  Surely ALL the other houses cannot have been mistranscribed!

[sandgrounder]

Not been mistranscribed - just missing!

[Redroger]

Or the book misfiled, put with another street.

[lesleyhannah]

Or the book misfiled, put with another street.

I suppose if that's happened, the only (very faint) hope would be someone knowing the area, who could pinpoint an adjoining street. Although the fact that this street was split up between at least 2 different enumerators isn't a hopeful sign.

It's annoying if you've paid a subscription for a particular family and the whole lot are missing though.

I've looked again, but had no luck. Hopefully someone with sharper eyes than mine will come up with something.
Lesley

[Redroger]

Will try Lesley when I'm next at the archive. Don't know quite when though. Can't guarantee the eyes either.