In a message dated 16/06/2004 23:33:04 GMT Daylight Time, rmole@blueyonder.co.uk writes: My problem is that I cannot find them on the 1881 Census anywhere. Could they have been missed off? . . That is vey unlikely. Perhaps your "anywhere" is not as comprehensive as you think, especially if it is based on a compurer search. Have your searches included Northumberland? - Chopwell and Greenside are only a mile or two from the county boundary. Perhaps they were in Scotland - only a day's travel away. Perhaps they were in Ireland - not covered by the FFHS/LDS transcript of the 1881 census. Perhaps they had emigrated. People did that, and many of them later returned; if it all happened between censuses, modern-day researchers, unless they are very thorough, often miss the fact completely. Perhaps your family were away for census day. Perhaps you are looking for the wrong surname - Harrison was often written as "Herrison", for instance. Perhaps you are concentrating on the one member of the family who was not at home on census night. Of all the possibilities I would say, from experience, that simply being missed off the actual census is the least likely: indeed is it more likely if they really are not to be found, that they were omitted from the transcription! . . Geoff Nicholson . 57 Manor Park, Concord, WASHINGTON, Tyne & Wear NE37 2BU Ask for details of NBL/DUR family history research in depth by THE local expert, working for YOU.