Help to find George please.

[Sunny Rosy]

I have George Butcher 1835 on the 1871 census in Bury St Edmunds ,Suffolk, with wife and family. I cannot find him on the 1881, Sarah Ann, his wife is there with the children but no sign of George. I have exhausted all my avenues in finding him. They were both born in Suffolk but spent time living in Norfolk too , where my gt grandmother Eliza was born in 1870, she died in childbirth in 1889. Also i am unable to find his marriage to Sarah Ann, her maiden name was Holmes. Please can you help, I would greatly appreciate finding this info on my 2 x gt grandfather.

[Chrissie Smiff]

Well he seems to be back at home with Sarah in 1891 Rose -

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/6598/NFKRG12_1546_1548-0573?pid=23107837&backurl=http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26db%3Duki1891%26h%3D23107837%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26rhSource%3D7572&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true

[Sunny Rosy]

Morning Chrissie, hope you are well, as am I, have lost 2 stones in weight since l last saw you and feeling so much better for it. Yes I have him 1891, any sign of his marriage, his first child was born circa 1864/5.

sunny r

[Guest]

you dont think this could be him do you ??? I think it says he was a Drover on that census ? or have I read that wrong ? maybe he lied about his name

Joseph Butcher
Relationship Prisoner
Marital status Single
Gender Male
Age 45
Birth year 1836
Occupation Drover
Birth town Welney
Birth county Norfolk
Birth place England
House name H M Prison
Street Sheep Market
Parish Spalding
County Lincolnshire
Country England
Registration district Spalding
Archive reference RG11
Piece number 3204
Folio 21
Page 22

[Sunny Rosy]

Val thank you this could well be George, he would have been that age and his was a drover, naughty boy!!! will look at the census.
sunny r

[Guest]

not found the marriage either, maybe she had been married before ?

[Janet in Yorkshire]

If he was a drover, he could easily have been away from home on census night and not been recorded. I have come across census entries "man sleeping in barn/out in the field" etc. I have an ag lab who was shepherd by trade and one census year he was missing completely, another year he was recorded "in the barn." Farming has changed over the decades and I reckon that in his time the lambing season coincided with census.

Jay

[Chrissie Smiff]

Morning Chrissie, hope you are well, as am I, have lost 2 stones in weight since l last saw you and feeling so much better for it. Yes I have him 1891, any sign of his marriage, his first child was born circa 1864/5.

sunny r

Hi Rose I am fine thank you, but hubby has an op on Wednesday, so will be happier when that is over. I have lost almost 3 stone in weight since I last saw you, so we would be able to exchange notes (if we recognised each other lol:D). We had to cancel our holiday in South Devon this year, but all being well we are hoping to make it next year some time. It would be great to meet up again
Sorry, I couldn't find a marriage I'm afraid.