I thought I'd share some good news to encourage others. I have found my gg grandfather in the 1881 census index with yet another spelling variation - GLARINI. (originally GHIRARDANI). Still only says Italy as birthplace, but at least I now know where to look in the enumerators notes to see if there are any crossed out clues like there seems to be in the 1891 census. I hope this will encourage you all to be very lateral thinkers and to persist. Also to try to obtain any available marriage and birth certificates because they contain useful clues - such as addresses, occupations and witnesses. I found the family by looking at the address they occupied in 1876 when my great grandfather married. I had just received a photocopy of the original marriage certificate from a relative. It was delightful (if hard to read) - my gg grandfather by then had become an ice cream maker - so typical of that period in the Clerkenwell colony. It seems neither my g grandmother nor the witnesses, my g grandfather's sister and husband could write - just made their marks. Daphne Dashfield (nee Geradine) GHIRARDANI and 16 or so spelling variations from c.1850