Missing from 1911 Census

[sandgrounder]

I've tried without success to find a family in Stockport, Cheshire. I know for certain that they were at an address in Dec 1911 but the head of the household is also shown at that address in the 1910 Directory of Stockport which is published on the Stockport website http://interactive.stockport.gov.uk/Heritage/Directories/

The road is a long one, but the 1911 street search shows less than a dozen houses. I tried looking for some of the other residents shown in the directory and they weren't in the census either. I entered into a long correspondence with 1911 census, gave them the name of the family I was looking for, the link to the directory and the names of the other residents I'd searched for.

The upshot was they came back and said they couldn't find the family. I replied  "so basically what you're saying is that a large section of New Zealand Road, Stockport was omitted from the 1911 census?" To which I have had no reply!

I assume this is in fact the case and I expect many people will discover other streets are missing, too. Just thought I'd share this as a warning to others!

[Stone931]

Appreciated!  might well explain a wrinkle I have in Wales.

Thank you kindly and God bless.

[lesleyhannah]

I've had a similar problem. I put the name of the road in Hampton Hill into the address search, but it came up with no results. I'm sure the road and its inhabitants will be there somewhere, mistranscribed to a name beyond my imagination! Unfortunately I don't have a surname - I just wanted to search the street.

Do you have a particular surname sandgrounder?

[dovecote]

Likewise have missing family -  not found on the 1911 Census

Dovecote

[Redroger]

Have you tried submitting Christian name, date of birth, place of birth, and a variety of punctuation marks for the surname? Worked for me I found Sydney Harold Luffman wrongly transcribed as Suffoma!

[sandgrounder]

I have tried every possible combination of first name, dob, occupation, place of birth, etc. you can imagine! But because there are so many houses missing from the street I think they must have been missed.

Surname is Williams!!!

[lesleyhannah]

I looked up the 1911 census, and can see what you mean. I could only find a handful of households in New Zealand Rd.
The census does give Enumerators' book images - the links are at the top of the page when you view an original image. They cover: List / Cover /  Details / Totals / Description . They are all free to view.
 
The 'Description' tab for the few New Zealand addresses gives details of the enumerator's 'patch'. If you knew the area it would probably make more sense, but it does say he covers only 287-291 New Zealand Road (he then goes on to St James's St). I'm assuming this means the rest of the road is covered by a different enumerator, whose writing has been mistranscribed, and therefore difficult to find. The only hope, I expect, would be to find someone else from that road (maybe from a directory) with a more searchable name than Williams!

Good luck!

[lesleyhannah]

a different enumerator's 'Description' of his patch says 'New Zealand Road excluding 289-291'.However the 'List' tab shows he included even numbers 2 -22, and none of these were Williams families. The rest must be there somewhere, but so far I haven't been able to work out where!
Lesley

[sandgrounder]

If it was just the Williams I couldn't find I'd think they might have been away, but I searched for several people shown in the directory and couldn't find them either, so I think a large part of the street is missing.