On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:58:27 +0000, Graeme Wall wrote: > On the off-chance he might have gone to Argentina, have a look at > <www.argbrit.org> Thanks :)) There's no one obvious who might be him on a quick search but I'll have a look again later. I'm rather banking on him not changing his given name, only his surname (possibly). > Oh dear! Yes, it is very much "oh dear!"!! :)) > Mind you I have a similar problem, cousin Ruth Mary Ann Wall married > a Russian emigré in 1881 with just a hint of a shotgun. he, > Constantin Baranoff, then vanishes, possibly to Sacramento. Ruth > then takes up with a married man, Thomas de Breton Godfrey, and > they go off to New York in Septemebr 1887, abandoning her son and > his wife and three children. Come 1899 they get married in Bishop's > Stortford both claiming to be single. I can't find any trace of > them in the US, or back in England after the wedding. Seven year rule coming into play perhaps in the claim to be single? You could have done with the 1890 US census for Ruth the same as I could for DCA. People can't just disappear, no matter how much they try to evade and avoid officialdom. Or is there must be some kind of black hole that swallows some of our ancestors? Or is it alien abductions? ;)) -- http://home.comcast.net/~webact1/Collingridge/