Greetings cousins my New Zealand-born Cornish-Irish lad "went back to Ireland", his mother's birthplace before she was shipped to Australia with other famine orphans. But was this Thomas Burgess, b 1862, or his older brother William Henry Burgess, b 1858? One of the reasons I don't know is that he doesn't seem to be in the Census, unless he's lieing about his birthplace. In the 1901 Census he should be 39, or 43, married, probably childless. Too young to be dead, or family legend would have added, "died young." I can't see him in the 1911 Census either. Did he in fact work and move around in the UK, and live in Ireland only at times? If so, could he be found in near his extended Cornish family? If he is indeed childless, then none of his descendants is looking for connections. (Well, you don't have to be Irish to see the odd logic of that.) Anyone with a possible boarder / visitor etc who might be mine, please tell me Migs Eder Christchurch New Zealand On 4/06/2010, at 7:00 PM, cornish-gen-request@rootsweb.com wrote: