Genealogy Chat

Thanks for that - trouble is, I don't know his date of marriage - only his wife's name! It's so frustrating. I just don't understand how someone who is 34 in 1901 doesn't appear anywhere else any earlier.

Hi Stephanie, Why dont you put his details up and we can see if we can find him in earlier census ? June x

Thanks June. His name is John James Moss - born c 1867 married Jane Ward. Had 3 children (that we know of) Walter (1894ish), Hilda (1901) & Thomas Benjamin (1907) ( my grandfather in law). John and Walter born in Poplar and Hilda in Limehouse. Family legend had it that John was blinded by a horses tail - but the 1901 census shows him blind from birth so that's killed that one!

Well institutions would appear on census too altho sometimes they just listed inmates with their initials so makes it difficult to find them . he obviously married so that cert will give ,hopefully, his dads name . you may just have to find his parents and the census for them and not find where he might have been institutionalized

Hi everyone. I am fairly new to all of this and have found my great grandfather-in-law in the 1901 census. He was born c1867 and is shown as being blind from birth. He doesn't appear in any other census (that I can find) so I was wondering whether his blindness might have meant he was in some sort of institution for a large part of his life. He was born in Poplar (and so were his children so he doesn't seem to have moved around much). Does anyone know where I might access records for such institutions please? All help gratefully received. Many thanks, Stephanie.