Hello list , Subject title shows my wife's interest in the Sunderland area. The 1901 census shows the Roberts living at 33 Bond Street. Hugh Roberts head 50 coal miner Jane Wife 51 Hugh son 26 coal miner Evan g son 23 coal miner Mary j daur 21 Grace daur 18 Agnes j daur 15 All except son Hugh shown as being born in Wales. The Swain family also on 1901 census shown at 19 ellerslie terrace Jemima swain head 50 lodging house keeper fanny w daur 21 Drapers assistant mary e daur 18 Tea traveller may swain gdaur 1 also shown are a Victoria m wilkinson ,william robinson and herbert hillwood as lodgers. Brady Swain is the deceased father to the family and jemima,s maiden name is Cowley. Evan g Roberts marries Mary e Swain but now is known as Mary Cowley Swain. Evan is killed in ww1. They have 3 children ,Stanley,jean and Evan g. Have found Brady and family in 1881 too. Any body have an interest in this family or has seen them in 1891 give me a call. Colin Southampton

The Roberts family is to be found on the 1891 census at RG12/4114 Folio 35 p4 ED 8 which is Newbottle. There is another son Samuel aged 18 that you didn't mention. The rest are the same. It says that Hugh was born at Amboch but I think that's going to be Amlwch, Anglesey. The Swains proved a little more difficult to find but I'm fairly sure this is the family at RG12/4147 Folio 108 p32 ED7a which is Monkwearmouth. They are indexed as Swani and Jemima is Junnua! However the other details seem to fit the 1881 family. It includes children Charles, Fanny W., John Geo and Mary C. For some reason the image is not available and so I can't be certain. I don't know if Jemima is a widow here but there's no sign of Brady so it looks that way. I hope this helps, Regards, Irene