I've had some time to think about Carlton and I'm fairly convinced he was in fact my great-great uncle Horatio. I mentioned him in my previous post. He was born in 1875 and as a previous poster (Ruskie) mentioned, it's possible Carlton had knocked 10 years off his age. He left his family (his mother, Elizabeth Nicholson, my great-grandmother, Albertine) telling them they would never see him again. He's mentioned as being deceased on the marriage record of his son George ( I can't find a birth entry for him on Free BMD, UK) and I suspect he wasn't very active in his upbringing. His own father, Harry Horatio Deville (nee Clifton), also disappeared when Horatio was about 15, started a second family using a new surname and then disappeared again. I've no idea where he ended up. I hope this is useful. Does anyone have a photograph of Carlton Horatio ??
