Alfred L Duce/Douce

[penpen64]

Can anyone help??
My Great Grandmothers brother was one ALFRED LAURENCE DUCE born 1881 District of Orsett.
In 1901 he was single/living with his mother and brothers in Stifford Road, South Ockenden. The family were now spelling the surname Douce.
Cannot find him in 1911 or a death certificate for Alfred L Duce.
I do however have one for an Alfred Lawrence Douce 1937 with an age of 56 years which fits.
The informant was a son.....looks like S.L.DOUCE.
Sent off for a birth certificate for S L DOUCE and the father was named as a WALTER LAWRENCE DOUCE married to Jeannie Ling. Very confused. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Alfred had a brother called Walter so he can't have been Walter too? Any help most grateful 

[Pheno]

Actually, strange as it seems, there could have been two brothers both with the same name in one family.  Not common but it does happen.

Pheno

[groom]

This is a strange one - is this the family with Walter in 1891? If so, where is Alfred?

RG12; Piece: 1375; Folio: 23; Page: 21

Eliza A Duce   53
William Duce   31
Charles Duce   19
Edward Duce   14
Henry Duce   12
Walter Duce   9

[silvery]

 S L Douce looks like Stanley Laurence Douce b 1908, Leigh on Sea, Essex.   

His parents are Walter Laurence b 1882 and Jane (Jeannie from you and Jennie in m records) b 1880 in Shoeburyness Essex.  Two more children Charles Walter b 1910, and William Patrick 1911. 

[silvery]

This is a strange one - is this the family with Walter in 1891? If so, where is Alfred?

RG12; Piece: 1375; Folio: 23; Page: 21

Eliza A Duce   53
William Duce   31
Charles Duce   19
Edward Duce   14
Henry Duce   12
Walter Duce   9

1901 
Eliza 62
William 41
Charles 29
Edward 24
Henry 22
Alfred 19

[groom]

So it looks as if Walter and Alfred are the same person. I can't find a birth of a Walter Duce/Douce in 1881 or 1882.

[penpen64]

Think on the 1891 census a mistake was possibly made....
Henry Duce was christened Walter Henry and therefore the enumerator? had the name Walter in his mind when he should have written Alfred?

[silvery]

There's a Walter Henry  aged 32 born 1879 Bulvan Essex, living in South Ockenden with his brother John William aged 52 b 1859 both farm labourers.     (You will have to look it up not sure about the rules on this census). 

[penpen64]

Walter Henry Duce was born 1879
Alfred Laurence Duce born 1881