Wendy YOU might try writing to the Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society, or even consider joining it and posting your interests in their list of Members' Interests and see if anyone else is researching the Bonnett family. According to my Federation of Family History Societies handbook, the secretary is: Miss Diane Merryweather, 11 Faldo Close, Rushey Mead, Leicester LE4 7TS. I have looked in my Gibson Guide copy of "Marriage and Census Indexes for Family Historians" by Jeremy Gibson and Elizabeth Hampson to see whether the 1891 census for Leicester has been indexed, but regretfully it does not seem to have been. You might also post your query in the GENBRIT list and I am sure there is also a list for Leicestershire (look on the Rootsweb site). Presumably you have found them on the 1881 census discs? When you say you have "lost" them in the 1891, do you mean they weren't at the same address as in 1881? Could I ask how you know this if you haven't yet seen the 1891 census? One thought occurs - it is possible that Leicester Library possesses a set of electoral registers covering the period and perhaps you could hire a researcher locally to search them for you. However, these would be indexed by streets and not by surnames, as far as I am aware, so it might be just as large a task as searching the census! Roy Stockdill Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS) STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North & West Ridings MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock ”Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you. If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and humorist 1771-1845) Original message..... >>Hi my name is Wendy, I live in Australia. I have lost my husbands grandmothers family in the 1891 census. Leicester. They moved house between 1881 and 1891, and again before 1916. St Catherine's house records came in and I ordered three births certificates in the hope of finding them, did find grandmothers uncle, but not her family! We do get a look at the 1891 census late next year in our library, but do you know of any other way other than the census to find them? ( census means when it arrives I will have to go through the whole of Leicester, not a small task? Researching Henry Bonnett. Many thanks Wendy.<<