{"id":15780,"date":"2022-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/?p=15780&preview=true&preview_id=15780"},"modified":"2022-05-09T11:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:35:17","slug":"why-cant-i-find-george-osman-in-the-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/2022\/05\/03\/why-cant-i-find-george-osman-in-the-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can’t I find George Osman in the census?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why can\u2019t I find George Osman in the census?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

Q<\/span><\/strong> My grandfather, George Osman,<\/span> was born in Wimborne, Dorset, c1873. I have searched for George and his father, Frederick, in census returns, but since I don\u2019t know George\u2019s mother\u2019s name, I have come up blank. <\/span>He married my grandmother, Emma Alice Race, in Woodditton, Suffolk, in 1907. They moved to Ireland, where George worked as a gardener.<\/p>\n\n

Peter Osman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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Antony Marr has found a George Osman working as a gardener in 1901 \u2013 is this Peter\u2019s grandfather?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

A<\/span> <\/strong>From the 1911 census and his marriage register entry, we know that George should have been born in Wimborne, Dorset, in about 1873 and that his father was a gamekeeper called Frederick. <\/span>I think I have found him in 1901, when he was working as a gardener in Oxted, Surrey.<\/p>\n\n

He is recorded as 31 \u2013 was he perhaps a little older than the later records suggest? There is a Frederick Osman working as a gamekeeper in the Wimborne area in the <\/span>early 1870s, and there are several baptisms (but no George that I can find) recorded with parents Frederick and Mary Jane Osman at Wimborne Minster. Frederick was listed as a gamekeeper when they married in 1863.<\/p>\n\n

Census records would suggest that at least two of Frederick\u2019s sons (William, born 1869, and Charles, born 1874) became gardeners, so check for later records to satisfy yourself that neither of them changed their name and later became George. connection to this family, but Osman is a common surname in the area so I would recommend taking a \u2018family reconstitution\u2019 approach. Have a look at Andrew Todd\u2019s book on the subject Family <\/em>History <\/em>Nuts <\/em>and <\/em>Bolts <\/em>\u2013 the third edition was published in 2015. Essentially, gather every record (not just those online) of the name you can find in the area at that time and put together the wider family groups that were living there \u2013 you may find a clue to George\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n\n

Antony Marr<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why can\u2019t I find George Osman in the census? Q My grandfather, George Osman, was born in Wimborne, Dorset, c1873. I have searched for George and his father, Frederick, in census returns, but since I don\u2019t know George\u2019s mother\u2019s name, I have come up blank. 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