Robert Champley 1878, Missing from Census

[nomie]

I have a Robert Champley born Eastington Durham in sept 1878.
He is on the 1911 Census as a coal miner in Prudhoe but can not find him on the 1901 1891 or 1881 census.
He is not John Robert or the Robert born in wingate.
His death is 1928 but can not find parents or census anywhere!
He was married to Eleanor Turner in 1902. Any help would be wonderful thank you

[rosie99]

What information does his marriage give about him and his father, who were the witnesses

[nomie]

I don't have his wedding certificate that will be my next move. Was just wondering if you brilliant investigators could see something I couldn't first

[rosie99]

If he is the Easington one could this be his birth
CHAMPLEY, ROBERT  (No mothers maiden name listed - presumably illegitimate)     - 
1878  Sept Quarter in EASINGTON  Volume 10A  Page 433
 

[nomie]

Yes thats his birth. Did they show the mothers maiden name this early? Though is he is registered with that name at birth and still has it in 1911, why doesn't he show up in any census in between? Raised by some one else maybe and then reclaimed the name?

[rosie99]

The GRO index shows mmn from 1837 https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp

[jonwarrn]

Could he be Robert Shaw, 2, born Thornley in 1881?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q271-ZML2

Possible birth reg of younger brother
SHAW, JAMES       
Mother's Maiden Surname: CHAMPLEY 
GRO Reference: 1880  J Quarter in EASINGTON  Volume 10A  Page 442

Possible marriage, Sep 1879 Sunderland 10a 659
Champley, Elizabeth
Shaw, James   

[rosie99]

I have been looking at this and was just going to post and see John has beaten me to it
RG11/4969 f75 p24

I also think he is the son of Elizabeth who married James Shaw 

[nomie]

So why Champley not Shaw in later years?