On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 21:15:25 -0000, Nivard Ovington <ovington.one@gmail.com> wrote: > If someone does not want to be found it was very easy to seemingly > disappear Hi Millie, Nivard and Listers, Years ago, I had an elusive HARRIS family, too. I searched and searched for them in the 1881 census with no luck. That was in the days when when I looked up names in the 1881 census on microfiche so the process wasn't as easy as it is today. Then, when I was doing a look up for a surname beginning with H, for someone else, I found my family under the surname HARRY in a place where I would not have thought to look -- Treorchy in the Rhondda Valley in Glamorgan. Even though the birthplace of my 2x great-grandmother, Charlotte HARRIS (nee NORMAN formerly BAKER), was recorded as Glamorgan, rather than Bristol, I knew it was her and her family. So Emmanuel HARRIS could be in the later censuses under a name with a slightly different spelling. Besides HARRY, I've also found the spelling of HARRIES for my HARRIS family on various documents. A long shot could be that HARRIS could have been written down as ARRIS. One of my HASKINS family went to Wales and was recorded as ASKINS! Josephine