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