Hi John I have an interest in Sherborne where my Bunter, Chant, Noakes families were from. A lot of branches from my lines moved away starting in the 1840's and continued up to the 1920's. Being mostly rural workers and with family members being too high in number for available work, most appear to have moved to places where workers were in demand. Some went to Australia, New Zealand, the US and Canada while others moved to London or other emerging large industrial cities and are often found in them or nearby where industries supporting the city were based. It is also noticable that many Dorset men became fisherman (we call them deckhands these days on Crayfish boats) that helped bring in the catch for the ship's captain. These boats often went as far as Newfoundland's fishing grounds. While Abandonment is one possible explanation others could include being absent from family away seeking work in other counties? went overseas to establish a new home planning to send for the them when finacially secure but died soon after arriving as at times occurred? was out atsea on a fishing boat or basecamped Newfoundland? Died somewhere in Dorset but not Sherborne? Have you any details on the family after 1901 as any census is just a snapshot of one day and he could have been back with the family a week later? Have you checked other sources that came after 1901? regards Michael Cheeseman -----Original Message----- From: john Halliday [mailto:john@norsey0.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: Monday, 2 June 2003 1:59 AM To: ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [DOR-LIFE] subscribe i am interested in dorset life,particularly "cornhill" sherborne Dorset where my grandfather Charles Lewis Halliday worked in 1891(aged 26) with his wife Florence and baby william3 months.No trace has been found of Charles after this date (his wife and son appear in the 1901 Census and rumour has it he deseted them. Having reached a dead end in tracing him I am interested in what Newspapers might have existed at this time,how I could access them and what local Happenings might persuade a young man to leave his family eg Wars etc . I checked the names in Boer war with no luck ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from ENG-DORSET-LIFE Digest mode send a message to ENG-DORSET-LIFE-D-REQUEST@rootsweb.com with just the word unsubscribe in the subject line and message body. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.483 / Virus Database: 279 - Release Date: 19/05/03 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.483 / Virus Database: 279 - Release Date: 19/05/03