Anne Chambers wrote: > Ian Goddard wrote: >> gepewiss@gmail.com wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I am looking for Jacob and Babette Wiss (Wyss,Weiss, Weisz) (born >>> about 1809 and 1811)In the period 1817 - >>> 1820 they left Holland, and went probably to England. >>> >>> Who can help me please? >>> >> >> Familysearch for the 1841 census has few variations of the surname >> where the first name is unknown including a >> few pairs of male & female. You'd need to go to Ancestry or >> FindMyPast to view these to see if there's more >> useful information there. >> >> For the 1851 census they have a Mr & Mrs Weiss, lodgers, said to have >> been born in Germany (might be close >> enough to Holland for a boarding house keeper!) but with no indication >> as to where they were located. >> >> Bottom line: try the UK Census collections on Ancestry. >> > There's no death for a Babette with a surname anything like Wiss on > FreeBMD between 1837 and 1900. There's nothing on familysearch.org either. > There are several possibilities to consider: anglicisation of name to Barbara, remarriage if husband died young and re-emigration. ISTM that we can point the OP at the relevant sources but he needs to check them out for himself as it is he who needs to assure himself either that he's found them or that they weren't here. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk