Disappeared!

Given the Victorian propensity to gather information about the population of Great Britain, it surprised me how, between one census and the next, several individuals would disappear. There are several possible reasons, of course. Girls would marry and change their surname, and the marriage record have been mis-transcribed, or not transcribed at all. Young men could enlist, and die abroad. The child could have been recorded wrongly on the ’41 Census.

Out of 144 females and 148 males, 23 and 12 respectively haven’t been fully recorded.

I have listed below those who have vanished.

Three girls appear in the ’41 Census, but can’t be found afterwards. Harriet Timberal (1836-), Fanny Mason, and Ann May.

By the ’61 Census, 5 females: Mary Clark, Elizabeth Earl, Elizabeth Organ, Sarah Robertson, and Jane Williams and 4 males: Anthony Hancock, Thomas Milled, Philip Owen, Thomas Price.

By the ’71 Census, 6 females: Emma Earl, Mary Mason, Sarah Milled, Elizabeth Munday, Ann Organ, Sarah Tavinder and 4 males: George Hooper, Samuel Mason, Thomas Shearman, and Thomas Workman.

By the ’81 Census, 1 female: Sarah Parker, and no males.

By the ’91 Census, 1 female: Mary Carpenter, and 1 male: Samuel Workman.

By the ’01 Census, 1 male – Solomon Webb

By the ’11 Census, no individuals had disappeared.

finally, by the ’21 Census, 6 females: Luisa Jenkins, Jane Munday, Sarah Parker, Ann Robinson, Sarah Webb, Julia Woodward, and 2 males: Eli Mason, William Whittker.