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From: Wilhelmina Griffin <>
Subject: Re: Missing in 1881
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 18:24:15 +0100


Hi,
I also had two missing families on the 1881 cd. I found one by
trailing from another person I had noticed living in the same area and
worked through the streets till I found their address. My Witchalls
were listed as Whitehall, even though they were Witchalls on the film of
the 1881.
Billie

Eve McLaughlin wrote:
>
> In article <l3AY4.1559$>, J Kernick
> <> writes
> >Would someone tell me how to find my great grandfather's brother or explain
> >this anomaly? I have the 1881 Census and have searched throughout England
> >Scotland Wales and EVERYWHERE but cannot find him. I KNOW that he was in
> >the country at this time. Was it possible to 'Dodge' the Census? Any
> >replies gratefully received
> >
> >
> yes, if you were in transit and no one (Mum, auntie Flo you were going
> to visit, innkeeper where you arrived etc) bothered to check up on you
> But (assuming he was not in the Navy, Merchant Navy, army overseas,
> diplomatic service, on holiday abroad that week), have you actually
> tried every possible misreading of the name? Kernick, if it is that, is
> a natural for error - Kemick, Kinnick, Rernick, Resnick, Remick, Pemick
> etc, all possible.
> --
> Eve McLaughlin
>
> Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
> Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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