Hi Dianna He is enumerated as R W a widower, occupation labourer, age 77 > 1861 England Census about R W > Name: R W > Age: 77 > Estimated Birth Year: abt 1784 > Relation: Inmate > Gender: Male > Where born: Ireland > Civil parish: Stapleton > County/Island: Gloucestershire > Country: England > Registration district: Clifton > Sub-registration district: Stapleton > ED, institution, or vessel: Clifton Union Workhouse > Household schedule number: 1 > Piece: 1741 > Folio: 133 > Page Number: 5 > > <snip> > R W widr 77 labourer Ireland > <snip> > > RG 9; Piece: 1741; Folio: 133; Page: 5; GSU roll: 542860. As to his having family and why wasn't he with them, the workhouse was the only form of medical treatment available to many people at that time, clearly there were health issues if he died soon after The census being a snapshot of just one night in ten years it is quite possible he entered the workhouse on the day the census was taken but could also have been an inmate for some time previous to the census being taken I would enquire at Bristol Records office http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ However it appears that most of the workhouse records were destroyed in WW2 so don't get you hopes up to high, but still worth asking I would say It may also be worth checking the Bristol Register office to see what name was registered for the death below Deaths Jun 1861 Woodward Robert Clifton 6a 109 Its not inconceivable that he was correctly registered as WOODWORTH but the information was transcribed incorrectly for the GRO index The reference above will mean little to the Register office, if you just say there was a death registered in the June quarter of 1861 The downside might be if he died in the workhouse and the death was registered by the workhouse as it may not have anything to tell you if he is your man (its possible they registered his name incorrectly as WOODWARD) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 02/07/2012 00:05, dianna charles wrote: > HI Joyce > Thanks very much for that, so just to clarify did it say Robert > Woodworth or just initials RW, seems such a shame as he had children etc, > you would have thought that he would have been living with them. The area > of Clifton does seem correct though. Many thanks Dianna