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    Hello everyone, could someone help me to find a specific address on Ancestry please. I have tried by just filling in the living location but no joy there, I would be very grateful for any tips

  • #2
    It can be very difficult in a large town where there are a large number of enumeration districts. For small villages or smaller towns you can search through the enumeration description to see if the road/street you are looking for is annotated.

    What is it you are looking for?
    Elaine







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    • #3
      If you mean searching a specific address on the census then there is a guide in the wiki,

      you have to find the district descriptions within a parish, they list the streets within each district, (once you find the street note the district number) and then you can go through the district image by image


      Finding images from a particular parish - Family Tree Forum
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/

      Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
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      My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid

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      • #4
        Which census is it? FMP has address searches for some years.

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        • #5
          Thankyou for the tips, the address is 6 Victoria Street, Newark. I have the census for 1881 but then the whole family seem to have disappeard

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          • #6
            Maybe they have been mistranscribed.
            Do you want to give us the family details?
            Elaine







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            • #7
              Elaine, in 1881 he was a builder and farmer employing 100 men, in fact he built the infirmary at Soutwell workhouse a few years previously. His name was William Duke living with his wife Elizabeth and his son William Henry and his daughter in law Alice at 6 Victoria Street, Newark,

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              • #8
                Umm - they certainly seem to disappear!
                Elaine







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                • #9
                  Elaine, I did think that they had emigrated somewhere but having scoured Canada, America and Australian immigrants I have come to a dead end on that idea. So I then thought to investigate the address to see if they had been mistranscribed, so, here I am bamboozled! I will try the tips in the wiki, thanks to everyone for the help

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                  • #10
                    On the 1891 census, 6 Victoria Street is occupied by William White b1834 Pinchbeck, Lincs - and family.

                    I´ve searched the emigration records on Ancestry and can´t see anything.
                    There doesn´t appear to be a suitable death for either William or Elizabeth between 1881 and 1891.
                    Elaine







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                    • #11
                      They could have gone to another country, for instance South Africa. One of my lost families finally turned out to hve moved to France.
                      KiteRunner

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                      • #12
                        why they might be missing

                        London Gazette 27th August 1886
                        Adjudications
                        William Duke, Newark upon Trent builder,contractor and merchant.

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                        • #13
                          Whilst looking for your Dukes on the cencus Ifound them on the 1871 transcribed as Duke William.Elizabeth William (elizabeth wigley) Lucy William.

                          I also found
                          King William
                          White William and
                          Pythagoras William

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