Missing grandads from the 1911 census

[mikebroe]

My two grandfathers seem to be missing from the 1911 census.
Patrick Joseph Broe born 1888 was most likely at the time in the Merchant Navy I think as a steward. He did travel the world and I know he went as far as Australia. Would merchant seaman be required to be accounted for as those in the Royal Navy were?

Arthur Tarrant (mothers father) born 1883 was a coal miner. I assumed that he work in the South Wales coalfields and waited for the Welsh counties to be released but no luck. I found the rest of the family but not grandad. If he was working underground when the census was taken would he have been omitted? He was single at the time and did not marry my nana until 1912 in Bristol.

Thanks

Mike

[Waitabit]

1911 has Patrick BROE 22 b.1889 Overseas Miltary.

I keyed in only one christian name , 1888+-3.

Didn't find Mr Tarrant. Was he in Wales in 1901?
Is it known where he died?

If he was in Bristol one year later could he not be either the chap in Poole (28 b. 1883 Arthur N.) or the one in Basingstoke (Arthur Robert 26 b.1885)?

[Nicolina]

Could either of these be your Arthur Tarrant b. 1883 + - 3 years:
TARRANT ARTHUR M 1883 28 Eton Buckinghamshire
TARRANT ARTHUR M 1886 25 Fulham London

he might have been visiting some-one

[mikebroe]

Thanks for your replies.

Waitabit.
Patrick that you mentioned was in the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles in Burma. I know from my father that Patrick was in the Merchant Navy and enlisted in 1914 in the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.

Arthur Tarrant on the 1901 census was living in Oldland Common, Gloucestershire as a boarder with his married sister. His occupation was a hewer. He died in 1939.

Nicolina,
I have check the most likely Tarrants but nothing appears to match my information.

I have checked with my mother but she cannot offer any more information.

Thanks again for your attempts.

Mike