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From: "Katherine Luck" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Lost on the 1881
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:33:18 +0100


Not quite 'lost' but I finally found Miriam COWLEY as Mary Ann COWLEY on the
1881 census.

Katherine
Sussex




-----Original Message-----
From: David and Pat Halliday <>
To: <>
Date: 28 August 2000 05:10
Subject: Re: [Lon] Lost on the 1881 (Mick asked)


>
>> I cannot find this couple anywhere on the 1881 (I thought it would be a
>easy one!!)
>> Any one had similar "lost people"
>
>Hi Mick,
>
>Our local LDS Centre host as taken an interest in this very topic and
>(although only based on anecdotal evidence) he feels that the number of
>'lost souls' in the 1881 could be much higher than any officialdom would
>ever admit to - perhaps 5%+.
>
>We certainly have at least one in our family (Matthew GILDERSLEVE - born
>Bethnal Green 1857, married in Camberwell in 1878 or 1880 and then
>'vanished' - although known to have lived beyond that census date)
>
>There were travellers, people visiting overseas, people staying with people
>they shouldn't have, crims, anarchists etc. etc.
>
>No - the one thing we've learnt since taking up this masochism.......
>er.......I mean hobby - is that nothing is certain, even the 1881 Census!
>
>Regards
>
>David Halliday
>Bellingen NSW Oz
>.
>
>
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