Hi John yes, it is a surname with a considerable number of different spellings! There were clusters of Anables in south Cambridgeshire and south Derbyshire, apparently unrelated. But other spellings are more common, particularly Annable, Annible and Annibal - and, as you can imagine, it was often misrecorded as Hannibal by census enumerators. My great-great-uncle William became William Mable when findmypast transcribed the 1911 - the capital A and lower case n looking like a M when written carelessly. But I am thinking that Frank's death, if recorded, would be unlikely to be mistranscribed, as it would have been typed. This makes me think that it really isn't there, and I need to look abroad. Thanks anyway for the information. Simon John Orchard wrote: > Hi Simon > > I don't know if it is helpful but across in Lincolnshire today there is at > least one person with the surname Annibal - presumably another variant on > the surname that you are seeking. > > Regards > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: eng-cambridgeshire-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:eng-cambridgeshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Simon > Sent: 15 January 2010 19:39 > To: eng-cambridgeshire@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ENG-CAMS] Francis ANABLE Dry Drayton > > Hello all > > I'm keen to trace what happened to my great-great-uncle Francis ANABLE, > who was born in Dry Drayton in 1878. He was the eldest child of Samuel > and Lydia Anable, and had five brothers and sisters: William, Alice (my > great-grandmother), Percy, Susan and Harry. He appears at home in Dry > Drayton in 1881 and 1891, but then disappears off the censuses. > > In 1911, Samuel declared that he and Lydia had had six children, five of > whom were still alive: the other five children are traceable on the 1911 > census, which means that Francis is the one who died. > > However, I can find no trace of Francis's death. It is not mentioned in > the Dry Drayton PRs: but then again, all five of his siblings left Dry > Drayton for various destinations and did not return, so perhaps he did > as well. I cannot find a death registered for a Francis or Frank Anable > (or of the more common spelling Annable) anywhere between 1891 and 1911. > Anable is an uncommon surname, but it is frequently misrecorded and > mistranscribed: I am assuming, however, that death registrations would > be less likely to be misrecorded or mistranscribed than, say, census > returns. > > The Anables, like all my great-grandparents' families, were poor working > class. The two possibilities that strike me as most likely are that he > either joined the army or went abroad for work, and in either case met > with his death outside of Great Britain. He was 13 at the time of the > 1891 census, and might have gone into service a couple of years after > that. He could have joined the army from 1896 onwards. > > If anyone has any ideas, they would be most gratefully received! > > Simon Knott > www.norfolkchurches.co.uk > www.suffolkchurches.co.uk > Finding CORNELL, CORNWELL, MORTLOCK, REYNOLDS, ANABLE, STEARN, PAGE and > CROSS in Cambridgeshire > Finding KNOTT, WATERS, HARRELL and BOWLES in north-west Kent > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE-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: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 270.14.144/2625 - Release Date: 01/15/10 19:35:00 > >