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I am trying to find William Edward Jordan on the 1911 census. (Births Mar 1885 Jordan William Edward Blackburn 8e 391)

I have him with his mother Mary Ann Jordan in 1891, all living with her sister.

JORDAN, Edward Nephew Single M 6 1885 Scholar Blackburn Lancashire

William's younger brother John Joseph dies not long after the census is taken in 1891. His father, Michael, had already died in 1889.

His mother marries William Pilkington in 1894 and she dies in 1905.

William is on the 1901 census living with the above in Haslingden.

JORDAN, William E Step Son Single M 16 1885 Labourer(Brickyard) Blackburn Lancashire

Now i cannot find William on the 1911 census!! His step father is still living at the same address in 1911 as he was in 1901, he being the infamous 'husband' of Annie Maria 'flippin' Liggins...(those of you who know my fight with her will dislike her equally)

So where does William Edward Jordan go?

I had found a marriage for a William Edwrad Jordan in 1914 in Toxteth thinking it's possible he's moved, his mother has died and his step father has remarried, but alas it's not him.

So i'm William less currently, any help greatfully accepted,

Tracey x

Howdy! How about a death?

Name: William Edward Jordan
Birth Date: 9 Jan 1885
Death Registration Month/Year: 1970
Registration district: Dudley
Inferred County: Staffordshire
Volume: 9b
Page: 383

Matches a Q1 1885 birth reg -- and he's the only such birth that quarter.

Hmmm,

If thats his death he's completed a very bizarre full circle, that being the area his step father's 'wife' came from?

Hmmm.... might have to order that one and see what it says.

Cheers chick,

T xx

JC

As the death didn't have a month i looked at the image and he's William EVERARD Jordan, matching

Births Mar 1885
Jordan William Everard Stourbridge 6c 2_1

Thanks for that, closest to him yet, but no cigar!


T xx

Have you done these Tracey?

Address:
98 Derby St Salford
JORDAN, William Boarder Single M 27 1884 Clerk Salford
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Address:
101 Dill Hall Lane Church

JORDAN, William Boarder Single M 28 1883 Pawnbrokers Assistant North Hamptonshire Peterborough

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Address:
1 St Mary Cottage Steeple Lane Beaumaris

JORDAN, Michael Head Married
7 years M 32 1879 Gardener Preston Lancashire
JORDAN, Nellie Wife Married F 28 1883 Jersey

JORDAN, William Brother Single M 27 1884 Labourer Preston Lancashire

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Would he have moved country? but this one should still be on 1911 anyway.

Name: Wm E JORDAN
Date of departure: 8 May 1914
Port of departure: Queenstown
Passenger destination port: New York, USA
Passenger destination: New York, USA

Yeah the pawnbroker one came from Peterborough, and as his only sibling died in infancy and infact he was an orphan by 1905 the other family are out too.

Thanks tho.

Tracey x

"As the death didn't have a month i looked at the image and he's William EVERARD Jordan"

Eh? You mean "William Edward Jordan" for that death is a mistranscription at Ancestry then?

Never!

Okay, in 1891 he's Edward and in 1901 he's William E. Suggests he went by Edward.

Hahaha, yep another for the list...altho people being completely missing is picking up speed just recently!


T x

1911

MILITARY JORDAN EDWARD WILLIAM 1886 25 Alverstoke Hampshire

??

A possibility for that one from the 1911

Name: JORDAN, EDWARD W.
Initials: E W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Bedfordshire Regiment
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Date of Death: 01/10/1917
Service No: 37102
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 17.
Memorial: JERUSALEM MEMORIAL


No age or relation name, of course

I guess everyone needs an indian.

JORDAN, Edward William Single ? 25 1886 Berks Wantage

I think the Edward choice was his mother's??

As he got older he was using William....

It's an interesting find, and if he's mine a sad end.... I wanted to find him alive and well somwehere....

Hmmm wonder if he's on the abscent voters poll for Lancashire.... thats online too!

Tracey x

Three births 1884-1887

Births Mar 1884
Jordan Edward William Wantage 2c 309
- the one there in the 1911

Births Sep 1885
Jordan Edward William Monmouth 11a 29

Births Sep 1886
Jordan Edward William E. Ashford 2a 803
(mistranscription in the data somewhere)


Where's the military one in 1911 born?

Berks Wantage

William's not on the absent voters list :-(


T xx

Oops sorry Viv, you mean this one *is* the military one?

JORDAN, Edward William Single ? 25 1886 Berks Wantage

Gotcha.

MIGHT HE HAVE EMIGRATED?

It's possible.

He was 16 in 1901, both his parents are dead by 1905, he has no siblings, and his step father sets up home and had a baby in 1907, 18 months after his mother had died.

I've not really given him much thought until the last couple of weeks, i did a bit a few years ago on him, but then left it...

Now he's bugging me again, he was technically family but he's just vanished...


T xx

Ellis Island site...

William Jordan from Blackburn arrives 1906 age 20