I was pleased to see that the 1841 Census is now on line through Ancestry.com, however, when I followed my family through to the 1901 census, I discovered that various family members who lived in the Brownlow Fold area of Bolton are now missing. Alice Cross and family lived at 3, Victor Street, Halliwell and her stepmother, Mary Yearsley and family lived at 10, Center Street. Halliwell. There should be a total of fifteen people with surnames of Cross, Dixon, Ball, Yearsley and Bamber. They were showing on Ancestry the last time I looked but they have now disappeared. Has anyone else lost their family living in this area? Pat

Pat, You didn't give any references, but I have some THORNLEYs living in Center St, so I've been able to check that one. 10 Center St is on RG13-3607-139-87 The enumerator for this part of the census wrote in a hand that admits of several interpretations for many of the entries. In this case the head of the household has been indexed by Ancestry as DINON, but there is also mother-in-law Mary EARSLEY (as indexed). The entry looks to me more like your YEARSLEY. I wonder if the other entries could also be victims of the handwriting / indexing problem? But that would not explain why you say that they used to be there. Are you in fact saying that they used to be in the Ancestry index, or are you saying that you had them from another source such as 1901censusonline.com ? Best wishes Rgds, Bob Thornley, Bolton >From: <pihough@rogers.com> >I was pleased to see that the 1841 Census is now on line through >Ancestry.com, however, when I followed my family through to the 1901 >census, I discovered that various family members who lived in the Brownlow >Fold area of Bolton are now missing. Alice Cross and family lived at 3, >Victor Street, Halliwell and her stepmother, Mary Yearsley and family lived >at 10, Center Street. Halliwell. There should be a total of fifteen people >with surnames of Cross, Dixon, Ball, Yearsley and Bamber. They were >showing on Ancestry the last time I looked but they have now disappeared. ><snip>