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Thanks everyone. I have bought some credits for findmypast and 1911 census and have been looking to see what I can find out. I am grateful for the looking you all did for me and it has opened up a whole new branch of my family tree. I'm so excited to find that grandma Annie was from a family of 10 children!!
Maureen, thanks for the info about Walmer/Deal 1901 not being transcribed yet. Do you know if there are plans to do that? Would be great to find out.
Thanks all,
Wendy

Hi Wendy,
I think "missing" is the key word here (re: the 1901 for Deal and Walmer). I'd always assumed either water or bomb damage......then again maybe they were smuggled out.....
If anyone could lay their hands upon them they'd have been transcribed quite quickly. grin

Maureen

If you looked at the 1911 census what does it give for Williams birthplace?

Hi,
William's birthplace is given as Middlesex and then the census collector has written a word that begins with Ball... . It's a bit of a scrawl, hard to read. All the others have Walmer, Kent as their birthplace. I think you were right about his father being in the forces.
Wendy

Just a further update, it seems that there were 13 children in all, only one of which died during early childhood. Two married and emigrated to Canada after WW1, one was a war veteran and emigrated to Australia! So I've got quite a bit of tracking down to do!!

I do think that the William I found in 1871 and 1881 b 1865 Weatminster son of Henry (Army Pensioner) is the right one but by getting the marriage cert of William and Elizabeth (details given to you earlier) you could confirm the fathers name and occupation
In 1881 they lived in Battersea -it might be that this is the word scrawled by the collector? Though Battersea is not in Middlesex but Surrey
You can apply on line for the cert (£7) by going to the General Record Office and entering the details given to you as to vol and page

Hi Gillian,
yes I had wondered whether it was Battersea, although the "t"s haven't been crossed in the word that's been written. I will send for the cert. I've been trying to follow up the Axon's too, but that is proving more difficult to work out as there seem to have been two or three Henry Axon's living in Deal/Walmer during the 1800s. One Henry was a mariner, another puts Henry J., who I think is Elizabeth's father. This is all about solving mysteries, isn't it? [grin].
Wendy

BTW, how/where did you find them living in Battersea in 1881?

1881 Census 8 High Street Battersea
Henry Macey 56 Army Pensioner b Witney Oxfordshire
Elizabeth 49wife Tailoress b Stroud Kent*
Henry 18 Labourer at plumbers works b Bermondsey
Mary A 13 b Westminster
William 15 b Westminster
Arthur 9 b Westminster

*Althought he census writer has written "Kent" I think the Stroud in Gloucestershire more likely -given that next door is a James Macey 28 born Blidington Gloucs -almost certainly another son of Henry

Thanks Gillian, that looks very much like it is William's birth family! That's great help, thanks,
Wendy