Hi again It would help us to try and help you if you post the rough age and birthplace or whatever you have on him If you have the census entry all the better post that and we can see if he is hiding elsewhere :-) Is this the same Robert TEVIOTDALE in the Papers in 1849 for theft? Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 28/11/2012 17:43, EUAN TEVIOTDALE wrote: > Hi again, > > > Thanks for your help. > > I haven't been able to find my Robert or his death cert. > > I have worked out using the census roughly how old he was, but to no avail. I have tried all the spelling variations, of which there are many.Still no luck. > > When I saw this newspaper article I thought may be this was the reason, he was in prison, or died in prison.I cannot find him in Scotlands people at all. I will have to look at the prospect of him not being in Scotland when he died. > > Euan.