On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 16:40:10 +0100, "Jill Dyke" <jill.dyke@ntlworld.com> wrote: >I have just received the death certificate for John HANSON a 76 year old >shoemaker, who died 11th December 1844 but have been unable to find this man >in the 1841 census. > >The death was registered in the Whitechapel district, sub-district Mile End >New Town, Middlesex. >Place of death Workhouse, Charles Street, Mile End New Town >Informant Mary Hayes Nurse present at the death Christchurch Workhouse her >Mark X > >I am hoping this is my 5*great grandfather John HANSON who married Mary >JOSLIN at St Mary Whitechapel, Middlesex the 30th November 1790 and baptised >3 children at St Mary Whitechapel. Mary (my 4*great grandmother who married >James SWIGG) bapt. 23 Nov 1791, John bapt. 27 January 1793 and James bapt. >12 July 1795 & buried 1 Nov 1796. > >Hoping someone can find John in 1841 > If he was in the workhouse in 1841 then it was common practice for workhouse inmates to be recorded in the census using only their initials.