Who is this boy?

[sami]

Has anyone found parents Harry and Ida?

Cheers,
DB

I've been looking for Harry and Ida and also for Michael's birth. So far, no luck at all.

sami

[dbree]

sami  we seem to be in the same place.....luckless

[KarenM]

I haven't had any luck either with finding the parents, Ida and Harry.

It wouldn't be the first time one made up names

Karen

[J.J.]

The man spelled labourer "Lauber" so we may never know who this lad in the census was...
However....My 2 cents worth on the name from the 1901 is Gordon Hnry Zuben/Zuken ( capital "R" & "B" seem to have a definite downstroke, & many make a backwards script E for Z)... I also considered Layton (see Gaten) Hnry since the capitol L above him looks like a G ....However there are No Z in the BHC.  It is not fully indexed so hard to say if he's in there at all...
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re: the original subject of Karen's Michael Henry Rueben found in the U.S. marriage
Not that it helps anything at this stage, but it appears he was shipped out in 1901 ( surname RUBIN) from Liverpool to Quebec so that is for certain not he in 1901. I cannot see Michael in the BHC database.

This might be Michael in 1911 Brockville, with incorrect age, but birth date down as Oct which doesn't match next entry  http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=90247

says his birthdayAug 1 1889 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-27349-22839-22?cc=1999177

[J.J.]

Would someone be so kind as to check and post an age on that Michael arriving Quebec...? There was no age so I should not have assumed it was the correct person
If the correct one...Does anyone see him as an inmate in an institution or with grandparents in 1901 U.K. ?  I see no births or marriages either.

[J.J.]

Have found several online postings inquiring about Michael. This one says he was found in 1901 Ontario but I could not see him in there... It also says he stated he was born NewCastle On Tyne, Northumberland?  Is this the same person who contacted you, Karen?

http://boards.ancestry.ca/surnames.reuben/21/mb.ashx


So far only a birth for an Esther and a marriage of a Bernard and a Jacob ( James) in Northumb. District   ( we need a Harry or Henry, or Heniek, Henio)

 

[J.J.]

Say I wonder if this is he...a  Harry Reuben age 14 ( c.1887) born POLAND (British Subject)  living Northumberland, Stannington. His occupation...General Field Worker ?
(If Michael Henry was Polish the enumerator might just have assumed that the lad was from there...)
I do see a Harry Rubin in 1911 but he is born c1881 ( Russia Mins Resident?) Westgate, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England

[chinakay]

The only Michael R(e)ubens I can find arriving in Quebec from overseas are Russians, JJ 

[J.J.]

The one from Liverpool said Russian then? That still doesn't rule him out as there were Polish Russians (or Russian Poles?) in Northumberland....were any of the right age? A Mike or Harry/Henry?