I have posted this on another site, so apologies to anyone who has seen it on there. Just wondered if anyone on here has any diffenent ideas.
I'm trying to find out information about my husbands great grandfather.
I have his marriage certificate (19 Mar 1908, Darnall Parish Church, Sheffield, Yorkshire) and I have him on the 1911 census living in Sheffield, but apart from that I have nothing. He doesn't seem to exist before he got married. Can't even find a birth record that fits him.
His name was John Ernest Whiting born c1880. His marriage certificate gives his father as John, an engineer, and his address as Fair Ground, Main Road, Darnall (Sheffield). They were travellers, which I think is part of the problem! On his son's birth certificate the father is given as John E Whiting and their address then was Maltby Road, Bramley (in 1910) He died 17/3/1946 in Sheffield aged 66.
I did find them on the 1911 census eventually (transcribed as Whitney!) It gives
John Ernest Whiting, 31, Roundabout Proprieter, born Deptford, London S. E.
Mary Ellen Whiting, 28, born Darnall, Sheffield
Eliza Ann Whiting, 2, born Stairfoot, Barnsley
John Ernest Whiting, 8 months, born Bramley, Rotherham.
They were living in a caravan on what looks like Bamforth Street, Penistone Road, Sheffield, which I know is the area they lived in.
I did find the baptism of a John Whiting in the Deptford area, with a father John, but on the 1911 census he is still living with his parents in Deptford.
I have searched on every census, using every combination that I can think of, but nothing. People on other websites have given me links to a travellers site run by Sheffield University and the Whiting family is mentioned on there, but still no mention of John Ernest.
Anyone got any bright ideas please
I'm trying to find out information about my husbands great grandfather.
I have his marriage certificate (19 Mar 1908, Darnall Parish Church, Sheffield, Yorkshire) and I have him on the 1911 census living in Sheffield, but apart from that I have nothing. He doesn't seem to exist before he got married. Can't even find a birth record that fits him.
His name was John Ernest Whiting born c1880. His marriage certificate gives his father as John, an engineer, and his address as Fair Ground, Main Road, Darnall (Sheffield). They were travellers, which I think is part of the problem! On his son's birth certificate the father is given as John E Whiting and their address then was Maltby Road, Bramley (in 1910) He died 17/3/1946 in Sheffield aged 66.
I did find them on the 1911 census eventually (transcribed as Whitney!) It gives
John Ernest Whiting, 31, Roundabout Proprieter, born Deptford, London S. E.
Mary Ellen Whiting, 28, born Darnall, Sheffield
Eliza Ann Whiting, 2, born Stairfoot, Barnsley
John Ernest Whiting, 8 months, born Bramley, Rotherham.
They were living in a caravan on what looks like Bamforth Street, Penistone Road, Sheffield, which I know is the area they lived in.
I did find the baptism of a John Whiting in the Deptford area, with a father John, but on the 1911 census he is still living with his parents in Deptford.
I have searched on every census, using every combination that I can think of, but nothing. People on other websites have given me links to a travellers site run by Sheffield University and the Whiting family is mentioned on there, but still no mention of John Ernest.
Anyone got any bright ideas please
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