Peter Jobbins was born 1808 in Kingswood, near Wotton under Edge in Gloucestershire and baptised at the Tabernacle (non-conformist) in Wotton in 1809. he joined the Royal Marines in October 1830, but was discharged from sick quarters to Plymouth Hospital just six months later, reason unknown. There are no further naval records for him.
And then he goes missing for more than 45 years.
He entered Chelsea workhouse in 1876 and was discharged to the infirmary in 1878, where he died a month later of bronchitis, aged 69, a shoemaker.
Any help in working out where he was in the "gap" would be much appreciated, even if it's just a theory of how someone can remain under the radar for such a long time. I've thoroughly searched Ancestry, FMP, Familysearch & Google to no avail, including the common mistranscriptions & poor spelling (jobins/jobbings/tobbins/sobbins and many others).
If it helps, brother William became a tailor in Worcester, brother John a shoemaker in Chelsea, while father Peter and sister Grace emigrated to the US, where they left a healthy footprint of immigration, census & BMD records. His father even returned to England at the ripe old age of 82.
And then he goes missing for more than 45 years.
He entered Chelsea workhouse in 1876 and was discharged to the infirmary in 1878, where he died a month later of bronchitis, aged 69, a shoemaker.
Any help in working out where he was in the "gap" would be much appreciated, even if it's just a theory of how someone can remain under the radar for such a long time. I've thoroughly searched Ancestry, FMP, Familysearch & Google to no avail, including the common mistranscriptions & poor spelling (jobins/jobbings/tobbins/sobbins and many others).
If it helps, brother William became a tailor in Worcester, brother John a shoemaker in Chelsea, while father Peter and sister Grace emigrated to the US, where they left a healthy footprint of immigration, census & BMD records. His father even returned to England at the ripe old age of 82.
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