Hi Diana A small comment, you say "He also described himself as "single" even though he had a "wife"" The 1911 schedule was filled in by the manageress and it is very likely she filled in the details without asking the full details of her clients, she may well have assumed he was single OR was simply being diplomatic :-) Curious that the only "visitors" in the "Hotel" are two males and two females eh The address looks to be a small boarding house rather than a Hotel proper, it is the same unnamed in 1901 Have you investigated this death England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005 about Edwin F Carter Name: Edwin F Carter Birth Date: abt 1881 Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1961 Age at Death: 80 Registration district: Wycombe Inferred County: Buckinghamshire Volume: 6a Page: 581 I don't see another Edwin F CARTER birth in 1879 to 1881 Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Hello list > > I am looking for a needle in a haystack but as this is a most knowledgeable list I will go ahead > and ask what seems the impossible. > > An ancestor was living in an hotel (un-named) at 22 Eastbourne Terrace, Paddington in the 1911 > census. He described himself as a Theatrical Box Office Manager. He also described himself as > "single" even though he had a "wife" and four or five children living in another part of London. > Edwin Forfar CARTER, born in Luton 1880, family originally from Scotland was a mystery. A > different occupation in each census and on his children's birth certificates, from Journalist to > Circus Worker to Theatre Manager and no sign of him after 1911. He could of course have been > killed or served in the First World War - his son, born 1905, never spoke of him in later life > except to say he was dead. I have found a couple of E CARTER'S who served and survived the First > World War plus a couple of the same name who were killed but no way of finding out exactly who > they were or where the survivors went after that. > > How can I find out if there was an hotel at 22 Eastbourne Terrace in 1911? It had 12 rooms but > there were only 4 guests there at the time of the census. I am assuming that if he was a > Theatrical Box Office Manager he would have been working at a theatre nearby. The proprietor was > Irish, Edward CROFTON, and employed a Hotel Manageress. He too was married but there was no sign > of a wife living there. I have applied to the British National Library regarding the Electoral > Registers of that time but Edwin CARTER did appear to move around London a lot. > > With thanks in advance for any advice or help you can give me. > > Kind regards > > Diana Ingram > Wiltshire.