Missing from 1911 Census

[andycand]

Hi Sandgrounder

Whilst New Zealand Road is quite long it doesn't appear, according to a 1911 map, to have many buildings and looking at Google Earth there are even less today. There was a concentration of buildings at the southern end between Turncroft Lane and Alpine Road but they are gone now. Looking at a 1910 directory they appear to be mainly shops. and comparing the names with a 1914 directory, most have changed hands.

In the 1901 census John W(arren) Gosling was living at 27 New Zealand Road (which was the Grey Horse Inn). In the 1910 directory he is still there and in the 1914 Directory the occupant is James Riddell Gosling, Beer & Wine Retailer who is possibly  the son of John Warren Gosling.

I'm not an FindMyPast subscriber so I can't check it out but a name search in the 1911 census does show a John Warren Gosling in Stockport, age matches 1901 census,  who hopefully is only about 4 doors down from the address you are looking for.

Andy

[Parmesan]

Just looked on FindMyPast.

edit: removed info on advice - PM if you need to know!

[Roobarb]

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!

How do you do this Redroger? If I try it I get a message saying 'At least 1 characters that are not wildcards required for name searched'.
What am I doing wrong?

[Nick29]

If my memory serves me correctly, an anomoly with the search system allowed all wildcards in the early days of the 1911 census being online, but this is no longer possible.  You now have to have at least one letter in the name, but this does not necessarily have to be at the beginning of the name.

[Roobarb]

Unfortunately it doesn't work on one letter Nick 

[Redroger]

I think that the point has been answered, and the loophole plugged by FindMyPast. As the 2 previous answers said it was in the early days of the release of the census, so I haven't tried it lately. There is a thread on here about the 1911 census which I got the detail from.

[lookingforold]

Have found a lot more of New Zealand Rd.

If you open the census page for No: 6; then open th enumerator's LIST, you will find numbers 2 to 22 N. Z. Rd
Likewise, open the census page for the high numbers, you will find other numbers. The prob seems that when you check the enumerator's List, thete are a lot of pages missing, One side shows page 12, the other is page 18. Perhaps the books were split when photographed, so it could be trial and error. I will see if I can find the 'missing' surnames. Pete.

[les_looking]

?? i have just put numerous first names only in the 1911 census,
and it deffo brings results,
that was on the official 1911 website, and on the FindMyPast site you can search with first or last,
better if you add a dob and place as it would bring up to many results,
obviously does not help your problem re the Stockport address, but if you do an address search for most
streets on FindMyPast pages it only brings up sometimes one number, so assume it has errors

doing a search for Williams in Stockport brings up 730 results, (just a guide as your not allowed look ups ) and then you will know who you are looking for
apology if you have already tried this

i am pretty sure i read somewhere some of the most damaged census pages were in manchester, if i am right again doesn't help you

[Parmesan]

we're getting slightly off topic but I find if I add anything other than the name and dob it doesn't find anything.

Put in a second name and nowt - take it out find a list and there's your name complete with second name!