Thank goodness there is now a website for canal people! I am searching for a Samuel Short b. 1858 ? Cheshire (as mentioned on the 1881 census), unfortunately I cannot find his birth anywhere - or his death. He apparently died between 1883, my grandfather was born in 1884 and 1891 when his wife remarried. She is down on the 2nd marriage cert as a widow. Samuel is down on his marriage cert as a flatman but on the 1881 census he lived near a canal and is down as a labourer. I just cannot find him anywhere. Surely if he had died between these times he would be down on the records?? Regards Sandra Hemsworth