Missing in 1861

[Asa]

I've never been able to find my great x 3 grandparents Robert and Elizabeth Ann Rolfe on the 1861. They married in May 1851 and from 1857-1867 they give their address as 3 Cambridge Road, Bethnal Green at the baptisms of nine children.

I've just been looking on findmypast and - unless I'm being stupid - there are 7 No 3 Cambridge Roads which would cost me more units than I have left: ) They don't come up on the name search on find my past either so I've no guarantee that they will be there. Cambridge Road is a huge road.

This is them on the 1871

25 Cambridge Road, Bethnal Green St Bartholomew
Robert Rolfe Head 42 butcher Newbury, Berks
Elizabeth Ann Rolfe 41 St George Middlesex
Robert Rolfe 19 butcher Bethnal Green, Middlesex
George Rolfe 18 clerk Bethnal Green, Middlesex
John Rolfe 17 butcher Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Eliza Rolfe 10 Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Arthur Rolfe 7 Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Charles Rolfe 1 Bethnal Green, Middlesex

Can anyone suggest anything to help?

[Jools in Scarborough]

I've a sub on there. I'll have a look for you. Jools

[Jools in Scarborough]

Hmm - several 3 Cambridge Roads Bethnal Green

they're not at 3 Cambridge Rd Bethnal Green as RG9/255/95/1 as that's a family called EAGLES.

UPDATE

they're not at 3 Cambridge Rd Bethnal Green as RG9/255/100/11 & 12 as that's a family called BEADLEY or BRADLEY.

they're not at 3 Cambridge Rd Bethnal Green as RG9/255/115/42 as that's a family called BROWN.

Still digging.

[Asa]

Oh thanks very much for looking Jules - I think I've tried most things. Perhaps I just need to trawl again but it is such a task with these long roads over many schedules that I was hoping for a shortcut : )

[Little Nell]

Did a search for all Georges born 1854 +/- a year in Bethnal Green with mum Elizabeth. Nothing like Rolfe.

Either they were all unrecognisably transcribed or they were elsewhere on census night - or they got missed.

[Asa]

Thanks Nell. They weren't badly off so perhaps they were in Benidorm...

[Jools in Scarborough]

Continuing on the Cambridge Rd dig. Last three were all St Andrews.

Now St Bartholomews
RG9/255/147/1 which is Pleasant Row on Cambridge Road (and no one with surname like ROLFE)

RG9/245/149/6 which is Queens Row on Cambridge Road - again no likely surname

RG9/245/154/15 which is 3 Cambridge Rd, but page is a mixture implying it could be Providence Place off or behind 1 Cambridge Rd - again no likely surname

RG9/245/156/19 which is 3 Cambridge Rd and a mixture of RITMAN and HIGMAN. BUT have a look at the family at no 2 - it's a mixture of surnames including one which looks like ROWE - but the family ages/structure don't seem to add up on first glance.

[Asa]

Thank you, Jools, I really appreciate your hard work. I've just been looking at that and I don't think it could be any of my lot - there are Rowes similar to these on the 51 and they seem to belong to the Draper family who are about before and after the 61 - but it is where they ought to be isn't it?

I suppose they could be away or travelling somewhere - I should have said earlier that their son John is with his uncle Joseph Rolfe in Newbury in 1861.

[Asa]

Sorry I have to go out now - will be back later.

[Jools in Scarborough]

Found John with his uncle on 1861 about same time you posted.

As Eliza was born AMJ 1860, can't you get a clue from her BC where they were living 1861?

[Asa]

I'm sorry to have wasted your time with John, Jools. I haven't got Eliza's birth certificate but according to the parish registers, she and her twin Hannah Maria were born 26th May 1860 which ties in with the BMDs. The address at baptism in August is 3 Cambridge Road, same as all the others. Bit of a mystery.

[Jools in Scarborough]

Time not wasted so no worries As twin Hannah died AMJ 1861 (Bethnal Green 1c/175) is it worth trying to find her - or did she die before census day? Just a thought - if they had money, could she have been in some sort of hospital with mum? Jools

[Little Nell]

sorry, Asa, tried a few likely mistranscriptions but nothing likely when I looked at the images.

I understand how you feel. My OH has family missing in 1841 and 1861 (both pieces missing) and of course it is finding them on 1841 and 1861 that I need to solve a couple of mysteries.

[vikki brace]

I'm just checking ancestry for you

They are not at 1-18 cambridge Road (comes under St Jude)

Still looking though

[vikki brace]

Not at 1-23 Cambridge Road (St Andrew)

[Asa]

Thanks very much for looking anyway Vicki ; )

Nell, I have sooo many missing from the 1861 - mostly from Grays Inn and Saffron Hill area. But it's really frustrating when you know the address they were living at and they're still not there!

[Little Nell]

I agree Asa!