Author Topic: Am I the only person that does this?  (Read 9357 times)

Offline snowyw

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,102
    • View Profile
Re: Am I the only person that does this?
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 24 March 12 16:08 GMT (UK) »
My great uncle Charles was abducted. Twice RC's have looked for him, twice they have been flummoxed.

So it's the only reasonable solution.  ;D

meles

I'm not young enough to know everything.


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline IgorStrav

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,957
  • Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
    • View Profile
Re: Am I the only person that does this?
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 24 March 12 16:19 GMT (UK) »
Mine and Royd's Cork/Cooley traveller family were abducted by aliens for the 1851 census.

I hope the aliens got value for money, because it's meant that we can't see them in the only census that would prove that Royd's ancestor and mine were siblings.

More realistically, they were in a tent somewhere.  Actually, that's made me think that I could google and see if I could find out what the weather was like then.  Whilst today where I am you wouldn't mind camping out, I bet early April 1851 wasn't so clement...... :(
Pay, Kent. 
Barham, Kent. 
Cork(e), Kent. 
Cooley, Kent.
Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich.
Cotterill, Derbys.
Van Steenhoven/Steenhoven/Hoven, Nord Brabant/Belgium/East London.
Kesneer Belgium/East London
Burton, East London.
Barlow, East London
Wayling, East London
Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
Thorpe, Brightlingsea, Essex

Offline Ringoroses

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 691
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Am I the only person that does this?
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 25 March 12 10:51 BST (UK) »
Two of mine - mariners - sailed of the edge of the earth never to appear in any record anywhere ever ever again.  Their brother - a former soldier in her Madge's military - died in a hail of bullets at the OK corral.

Or they may as well have done.  :'(

Offline kiwistar

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 127
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Am I the only person that does this?
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 25 March 12 10:58 BST (UK) »

I feel that there is truth in the stork!!! or cabbage patch......as they just appear and nobody can find where they came from....so dropping out of the sky will do me!!
ellis...sinel...wardropper...griffin


Offline Gaille

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 575
    • View Profile
Re: Am I the only person that does this?
« Reply #13 on: Monday 26 March 12 00:22 BST (UK) »
well, I mentally "killed off" 2 of my ancestors in WW1 because I couldn't figure out where they vanished too n it was the logical conclusion as they vanished between 1911 and verbal family history said one of them died young n the other was an unknown name to living relatives who would have known him.

n then.  . . . I discovered the one who died young' died in a motorbike accident after WW1

n the unknown name emigrated to Australia n died in the 1950's

glad really that I proved my theories wrong :-)
Manchester – Bate(s) / Bebbington / Coppock or Coppart / Evans / Mitchell / Prince / Smith

Cheshire Latchford – Bibby / Savage / Smith.
Cheshire Macclesfield,  Bollington & Rainow – Childs / Flint / Mc'rea
Cheshire Crewe – Bate(s) / Bebbington
Shropshire Wellington, Wobwell – Smith
Walsall Midds – Smith
Norfolk - Childs / Hanwell / Smith

Also looking for:
Mc'Rea/McCrea – Ireland to Cheshire

And
any relatives of Margaret Bibby married to Thomas Smith all over country

Offline weste

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,649
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Am I the only person that does this?
« Reply #14 on: Monday 26 March 12 17:56 BST (UK) »
They've been drawn into a black hole or wormhole.  How does your computer know when your on a critical point of tracking them. Don't it usually throw a wobbly.
westwood ,dace,petcher,tams

Offline suey

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 3,843
  • The light is on but there's no-one at home!
    • View Profile
Re: Am I the only person that does this?
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 28 March 12 14:42 BST (UK) »

I have a grandmother and great grandmother one on each side of my family who vanish into thin air, spent hours in time and money, not a trace.  My best theory is that they hooked up with a.n other, no divorce so no re-marriage, simply changed their names and their lives.

As an aside, I caught the tail end of a tv programme today.  The burials offficer of some London Borough was attending the funeral of an elderly lady they called Susan Strand.  She had been found homeless and wandering in the Strand. 
She had complete memory loss, did not know who she was or where she had come from.  She was put into a care home, chose her own christian name, Susan, because it was a name she liked and given the surname Strand as that is where she was found.
That poor lady could have been someones mother; probably a sister, cousin or aunt and someone somewhere might like us be looking for her... :'(

Suey
All census lookups are Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Sussex - Knapp. Nailard. Potten. Coleman. Pomfrey. Carter. Picknell
Greenwich/Woolwich. - Clowting. Davis. Kitts. Ferguson. Lowther. Carvalho. Pressman. Redknap. Argent.
Hertfordshire - Sturgeon. Bird. Rule. Claxton. Taylor. Braggins

Offline patrexjax

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,653
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Am I the only person that does this?
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 28 March 12 14:53 BST (UK) »
Hello all, I feel compelled to join in this discussion!  ;D 
For years I had never known what became of a first cousin 1X. All his siblings and parents were well accounted for.  Just yesterday a friend just happened to be looking for him and FOUND HIM!  Although he was born and raised in Newcastle-on-Tyne, NBL, in 1911 he and his Father had gone to Glasgow to work on a local water works project!  AND, the following year, he married there, had a child BUT, sadly, died at age 27 before seeing his daughter. Sometimes, not knowing a person's fate can give us happier fantasies.  At any rate, I do feel a bit better at least knowing what happened to him.  Pat
ARCHIBALD/ARCHBALD: Tweedmouth, NBL; CHARLTON: Ponteland, NBL;
ERRINGTON: West Denton, NBL; 
FAIRLESS: Longbenton, NBL;
HARDING: Hollinside, Co. Durham;
KING: Newcastle-on-Tyne & Berwickshire;
LOCKEY: Ryton, Whickham, Co. Durham & YKS; NICHOLSON: Ponteland, Newburn, NBL; PAXTON: Norham, NBL;
PAULIN: Berwickshire; REAY, Ponteland, NBL;
SCOTT: Norham, NBL; SELBY: Tweedmouth, NBL;
SLIGH: Berwickshire; SPOOR: Whickham & Ryton;
WIDDRINGTON: NBL

Offline snowyw

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,102
    • View Profile
Re: Am I the only person that does this?
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 28 March 12 15:17 BST (UK) »
On two occasions, I have finally found missing ancestors where their name was completely wrong on the census - one was a Francis, who became a Frederick.  The other even more bizarre was a Frederick Culliford who became a Thomas Cullifer.  It's no wonder we can't find the blighters!
I'm not young enough to know everything.


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk