Lancelot Rouse, where are you?

[*Sandra*]

Canadian Attestation Papers for Henry James Rouse - born Wimbledon Surrey. Unmarried at this date.  Next of kin Mrs Lizzie Craig. High Road. Chiswick.  31/12/1914

https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Record?app=pffww&IdNumber=605148&ecopy=617577a

Appears on a returning Canadian Passenger list

Henry James Rouse - Henry James Rouse - Henry James Rouse - Labourer - returning to Calgary.
Embarkation Port   Liverpool
Arrival Date   24 Aug 1917 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ship   Megantic
Residence Place   Calgary


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[*Sandra*]

Newspaper looking for creditors of Mark Rouse.
Will proved by Susannah Harriet Rouse
The Times
London, Greater London.
Fri, 30 Dec 1898
Page 2

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times/184931906/

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[*Sandra*]

A generation further back John Beaumont Rouse (1851 census shows Mark Rouse)

John B Rouse   61   Head
Elizabeth Rouse 59 Wife
James Rouse 22 Son
Henry Rouse 20 Son
Elizabeth Rouse 16 Daughter
Mark Rouse14 Son
Henry Rouse 6 Grandson

John Beaumont Rouse Marriage Date   4 Nov 1811
Marriage Place   Sutton-Valence, Kent, England
Spouse    Elizabeth Town

John Beaumont Rouse passed away 1868

John Beaumont Rouse - 1788 - 1868  (aged 80 years)
Death Registration Place   Hollingbourn, Kent
Death Date   Mar 1868   Kent, United Kingdom
Volume   2a Page   353

Burial - John Beaumont Rouse 1788 - 1868  (aged 80 years)
Death Place   Chart Sutton Kent
Burial Date   21 Mar 1868 - Burial Place   Chart Sutton, England.

Elizabeth Rouse burial 1883

Elizabeth Rouse - 1792 - 1883 (aged 91 years)
Death Place   Chart Sutton Kent England
Burial Date   17 Mar 1883 Burial Place   Chart Sutton, England.

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[Abhanliath]

Hmm.
But if Henry Rouse was a born Kentishman (or Man of Kent, depending on the area), what would he be doing describing his origin as Ireland and his nationality as Irish in the Canadian census of 1921?

[*Sandra*]

Depends who was filling the information in !!  Not all census details were exactly right.
The attestation papers say he was born Wimbledon. Surrey

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[Abhanliath]

I'm becoming suspicious that the "Rouse" listed in that 1921 Canadian census might actually be Liebert - the name of the paterfamilious seems to be "Alb." - and Liebert is occasionally named as Albert on documents. All the details sound like his: Church of England, born in Ireland, nationality Irish, etc.
He "converted" to Catholicism when he married Eva Alice Rouse (he must have been unaware of the fact that he'd actually been baptised Catholic when he was a sprog).
Attached (if it works) some of the details from the census form. Oh - looking at it again, I think they were in 265 Stantoine Street - oh, St Antoine Street? (maybe St Antoine again after those words).
The attachments didn't work, they were bigger than the 500kb allowed here.