In a message dated 20/09/2007 10:48:00 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I cant find any sign of this family on the 1841/51 Census, Allan: Did you look under Robeson and Robison as well as Robson? You could also have kept an eye open for any suitable entry under Robinson or Robertson. What means did you use to search the census? The only way to be sure you have covered everyone properly is to search the (microfilms of the) enumerators' notebooks yourself. Commercial transcripts have usually been made by people with no local knowledge and little experience of transcribing difficult handwriting, and even FHS transcripts usually contain some errors, so there is NO substitute for looking for yourself. Did your census searches encompass the whole of the three parishes which effectively make up "Sunderland" - Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland and Monkwearmouth? Movement "within the town" was quite common. Movement to some place outside the town is also possible, though the world, literally, is your oyster there. Geoff Nicholson