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They have to be there somewhere... but I'll be blowed if I can find them..... well, I have found some, but not all... and not my gt gt grandmamma, lol (she got posh in later years, lolol)

I will find them... I really will.... but I find it hard reading all that writing, and lists..... never mind..

Back to the slog!

Love

Daff xxxxx

Daff just shout if you want me to have a look also

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I've got a disappearing grandfather on 1911 census. He is on the 1901 census (born 1896, birth registered 1897) with his parents and siblings, but I do not know where he is in 1911 nor any of his older siblings, apart from those that were married. I have found his parents, with his younger siblings and they are saying that they only had four children and haven't lost any. They had about 13 children. I have tried variations of their surname, checked if he is with any aunts/uncles etc. but no luck so far.

Val

I know the feeling having spent hours and hours yesterday trying find find some elusive rellies with the help of lots of nice GR people.

I am so knick knacked today I am back off to bed..lol

Sue xx

It is a wind up when a whole family appears and then disappears off the censuses but i don't give up hope of finding them as the chances are the surname has been mis-transcribed and you'll find them eventually with some weird and wonderful surname.........lol
What has driven me to distraction is the sudden appearance in the 1911 census of a previously unheard of sister to my Nan and her siblings .None of my Dads surviving cousins have ever heard of her !! Can't find her birth..............I know my G.Grandparents divorced and am wondering if this " wandering Florence " was the cause ??? Bet I never find the truth out behind it : (

lol.... I thought I had this family pretty well sewn up... just trying to add meat to the bones..... and then along came the London Parish records... so, have found death, remarriage to sister of dead gt gt gt granny... and find the records of two of the siblings of gt gt granny.... daughter of dead gt gt gt and George... the almost bigamist, lol... he married the sister just 6 months after the burial, lol
And to top it all... decidede to re-trace my steps to verify the info I have... and I cannot find the father of the women... and I KNOW he was in the 1841 census with his wife and the daughter who went on to marry BiL... does that make any sense?

Rose, thank you so much.... I find it so frustrating that info that I had all nicely stored in my head has gone... it comes back in flashes.... plust the neurological probs mean that I still get a bit seasick reading through lots of lists, lolol Getting better by the week... but still not 100%

Any chance you could check out Digby Hunt, his wife Sarah, and their daughter Venilia (might be Vincla, Venetia or Vemla... or any variation of that, it was mistranscribed, I know... ) I know I have it saved to disc.... somewhere, !! Grrrrr! Just so I know I have the beginning right, lolol Mwah, and thank you!

Love

Daff xxxx

Sue....... Are you asleep yet? Aw bless.... lol Now move over.... I need a nap, too!

Amanda, that is so frustrating... but I haven't even started on the 1911 yet, lol..... I am really only just getting back in the dead rellie saddle, so to speak... and am finding it very taxing... I used to spend hours and hours at it without a qualm..... I do love your *wandering Florence* description, though lolol

Oooh Val... that is a puzzle.... do you think he may have joined the navy? One of mine did as a boy.... went on to marry this same gt gt grandmamma.. but it took me ages to find him in the 1851 and 1861 censuses......

Or been a naughty boy?

Love

Daff xxx

Daff I'm looking...but not finding!

Thanks Rose.... it is so frustrating.... glad it isn't just me that's lost him, lolol!!

I have found him in the 1851 and 61... and the family are back in Devon with him....

Never mind, thank you so much for looking, anyway...

Love

Daff xxx

there now if I hadn't been looking at London...LOL

1841 England Census
about Vinclia Hunt
Name: Vinclia Hunt
[Venilia Hunt]
Age: 25
Estimated birth year: abt 1816
Gender: Female

Civil parish: Callington
Hundred: East (Middle Division)
County/Island: Cornwall
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation: View image

Registration district: Liskeard
Sub-registration district: Callington
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Degby Hunt 60
Sarah Hunt 60
Vinclia Hunt 25
Caroline Rendle 30
Matilda Rendle 10
William Rows 30
Matilda Rows 25


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I read it as Venilia the milliner :))

Just looked at this as my maternal family are from cornwall...and my g.g.g.grandmother was Martha Rendle ,,but born 1784...could be a connection??? born in Duloe.

Brenda, totally irrelevant but when I lived in Cornwall I had a friend in Duloe lol

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I just found it, too..... Venilea moved to London sometime after... she married George in 1847... and moved back in with mum and dad... all the others in the census are the other sister's and children, lolol

Thank you so much.... Digby is transcribed as Degby... I didn't remember that as being incorrect, I have to say, lolol!!

Yes, that's right. Caroline, her niece and eventual step daughter, named for two other Aunts (she is in London just born in 1841) is the rellie who owned loads of draper shops in Cardiff..... eventually, lol

Thank you so much for looking for me!! Mwah mwah mwah

Love

Daff who is dead pleased cos she is still right, lolol!! xxxx

I love cornwall and would like to go again and do some more research,but no chance.The Truro Records office were so helpful and I handled documents from 1700's of my family who were millers and was pleased to see they could sign their names on the lease,,,so they weren't illiterate!

Brenda, I believe they moved to Cardiff, as well, some of them..... so it is quite likely there is a connection!!

They called all their children after each other..... and at one time, all the cousins were in one place, in Portsmouth I think.... and I am sure they had a business there... someone on here suggested it might be a brothel, lol.... as ladies of the night often referred to themselves as Seamstresses etc.... but I don't think so... all my Gran's generation had the skills passed on to them.

I don't seem to be able to find any boys... although there were Digby Hunt's in the 1871, I think.... just children though. Digby had died by then.

Thank you all so much..... Brenda, I'll pm you with the info I have on them, if I can find it, lol!

Love

Daff xxx

Hi Daff,
Thanks for that.If you have any of the married to a Hortop then we definitely have a match(there were a lot of them about in Cornwall/Devon and Martha was married to one.

Brenda x