so, this is really 2 questions, isn't it… one about the guy on the boat, and the other about my great-grandfather. Honestly, i've almost given up on him, but in addition to the stuff already posted, i can say he was in the 1881 census at 56-58 St Jude St, Kingsland, but somehow the house got left off the 1891 census, so he doesn't appear on that. Already a slippery beggar :-)
The he & Polly married in 1892, had 2 children die under a month old at 77 Shacklewell Lane (he is a master butcher on the b/c.s), decamped to Brighton, where my grandfather was born. He was a journeyman butcher when he registered that birth. Then Polly registered the 1897 birth herself & in the 1901 census is head of house.
i did a ton of searching during Covid for AEWebbs in the 1901 & 1911 census and i'm pretty sure i was able to connect ALL of them to an 1891 entry, i.e. not my g-g/father. But, you know, proving a negative is hard and i was just starting then…
i have just assumed since then that he either left the country or changed his name. (i looked at 1921 when it came out, but cursorily, b/c i'd more-or-less decided he had gone)
The topic person of this post is my last loose end before i decide whether to do it all over again, say, with a different census provider.
Or wait for some DNA luck.
When i get home next week i'll try and respond to the individual suggestions, but a couple of them look new, so that's interesting
