Chris Jefferies wrote: > I had several families who just disappeared in the latter part of the 19th > century. They were in earlier census then disappeared even though still > quite young. There was the obvious possibility that they emigrated but > without any clue they could have gone anywhere. The possibility increased as > several siblings also disappeared. If you post up their names, perhaps some of our overseas members will be willing to check censuses or other records to see if any of your families showed up there. FMP has the outbound passenger lists from 1890 but that's not much help for families or individuals who vanish prior to that date. > One family was Mark Flook COX who married Elizabeth PARFITT in June 1870, > but they do not appear in the 1871 census only about 9 months later. > Eventually I did a search for Elizabeth COX in the 1871 census, something I > would normally have done immediately had they been married a little longer. > There she was a Widow age 20 living with her widowed mother. A search on > FreeBMD for a death for husband Mark found it in Dec Q 1870, so she was > widowed after less than 6 months marriage. On a similar note: I have a lady who divorced her husband and later remarried under her maiden name, not her former married name. I guess she was thoroughly disgusted with him and didn't want to be associated with him in any way. She didn't have any children with him so it made it easier for her to right that period out of her life completely. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton and Greinton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk

I spent many years trying to find my G Grandmother's sister Suppora Lovell who disappeared after the 1870 census. I assumed she had died but could not find a death, and then I found an old note from an uncle who remembered her living with my G Grandmother around 1910 when he was a child. So she must have been alive later and I eventually found her while searching for anyone called Suppora on the Ancestry census. Because I was using a Soundex search it found someone called Zippora Barrington of the correct age and born in the correct area. A search on FreeBMD for her marriage confirmed that she was Zippora Lovell and also that at birth she was registered as Zippora Lovell. It seems that the error dated back 20 years to when I transcribed the family entry in a census from the film in Gloucester library during the 1980s. The first letter of the name was difficult to decipher and I had never heard of Zippora as a name and Suppora seemed best sounding solution. In subsequent census I obviously remembered this unusual name and didn't carefully examine how the name was spelt. That was my longest lasting brick wall. Chris Jefferies Cheltenham Glos -----Original Message----- From: bristol_and_district-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bristol_and_district-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Charani Sent: 17 January 2010 13:45 To: bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B&D] Deaths and burials!!! Chris Jefferies wrote: > I had several families who just disappeared in the latter part of the 19th > century. They were in earlier census then disappeared even though still > quite young. There was the obvious possibility that they emigrated but > without any clue they could have gone anywhere. The possibility increased as > several siblings also disappeared. If you post up their names, perhaps some of our overseas members will be willing to check censuses or other records to see if any of your families showed up there. FMP has the outbound passenger lists from 1890 but that's not much help for families or individuals who vanish prior to that date. > One family was Mark Flook COX who married Elizabeth PARFITT in June 1870, > but they do not appear in the 1871 census only about 9 months later. > Eventually I did a search for Elizabeth COX in the 1871 census, something I > would normally have done immediately had they been married a little longer. > There she was a Widow age 20 living with her widowed mother. A search on > FreeBMD for a death for husband Mark found it in Dec Q 1870, so she was > widowed after less than 6 months marriage. On a similar note: I have a lady who divorced her husband and later remarried under her maiden name, not her former married name. I guess she was thoroughly disgusted with him and didn't want to be associated with him in any way. She didn't have any children with him so it made it easier for her to right that period out of her life completely. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton and Greinton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.147/2628 - Release Date: 01/17/10 07:35:00