Benjamin Powis HORTON missing.

[macwil]

Up until 1895 he had been at Nickless (Farm), Milson, Shropshire with wife Elizabeth and five daughters, in Q3 of that year his youngest daughter Lily Ellen is born but his wife died, then in Q3 1897 Lily died and in Q1 1900 his eldest Louisa Bevan (23) is buried at Nash Chapel (Burford Parish). Nickless is the abode given in school records for his next youngest daughter Edith Annie, she was at the school from 1891 until Aug 1900.

I can't find him in 1901 or 1911 census.
Nickless is shown as uninhabited in 1901. rg13/2515 Folio 77 page 4 (schedule #25).

I have accounted for surviving daughters in 1901, all FS, one is at Coreley School, at which she was a pupil until the previous year, another is at New House, Mamble and the third is at Stoke House, Greet. He is not with them.

I have found a Q1 1938 death for Benjamin P Horton age 83 registered Ludlow 6a 753, which may or maynot be him, age is right. I have him born Q3 1854.

Where did he disappear to?

Regards Malcolm.

[geneius]

1901
RG13; Piece: 2515; Folio: 85; Page: 2
Benjamin Horton
Age: 47
Estimated birth year: abt 1854
Relation to Head: Visitor
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Hopton Wafers, Shropshire
Civil Parish: Neen Savage

Have a look at the entry at the top of the page is it a relative?

[geneius]

1911
Class: RG14; Piece: 15892; Schedule Number: 42
Marsh Cottages Craven Arms Shropshire, Culmington, Shropshire
Benjamin HoSton 55
Sarah Margaret HoSton 42

Marriage q2 1907 Church Stretton Horton = Sankey

[macwil]

Thanks geneius.

How do you find them? Neither came up in my current search, I'm now using FS and FMP after previously using Anc****y, although I vaguely recall seeing the 1901 one. I think I dismissed it because the whole entry has been scored through, as though the enumerator found some reason that they should not be included after he had already filled in the details. Perhaps he thought they had been included elsewhere.

I don't know why FMP didn't find the 1911 one either, except they have transcribed him as PowEs but they have the surname right. Now I've got to find the two children born to them but not listed. Aaaaagh, its bly infuriating but so addictive.

[macwil]

Now I've got to find the two children born to them but not listed.

Found them. . .
Benjamin George b Dec 1907 Church Stretton 6a 515
John Arthur b Jun 1909 do do 6a 546

Sadly both died Dec 1910 Ludlow 6a 351

[anniebea]

Found this in the 1901 Census records on find my past :

Benjamin Horton
Birth year is showing as 1857,
Birth place is shown as the Town Shropshire which is a little strange
Address Rippletts, Clee Stanton, Stoke St Milborough, Ludlow, Shropshire, England
He is a widower, his occupation is cowman

Looks like then remarried in 1907.

[macwil]

Birth place is shown as the Town Shropshire which is a little strange

I think at that point he didn't really care. He'd lost his wife and two daughters in the previous four years. He appears to have just walked away. He'd been at Nickless, Milson for 20 years.
I see his new wife filled out the 1911 census. They'd just lost their two sons Dec '10.
I think he was a very sensitive, emotional man.

[geneius]

How do you find them? Neither came up in my current search

I too have an interest in a HORTON* family, so adept at using an * instead of the letter H, brings up all sorts of permutations on the name Houghton / Haughton

I also search the year +2 and birth place particularly if it is a village & county on ancestry sometimes < gives a better result. I usually do -/+2 years on birth then extend it....familysearch I use the 10 years between census

* Samuel Horton Wednesbury 1817 via Derby / Stockport to Warrington

[anniebea]

I think at that point he didn't really care. He'd lost his wife and two daughters in the previous four years. He appears to have just walked away. He'd been at Nickless, Milson for 20 years.
I see his new wife filled out the 1911 census. They'd just lost their two sons Dec '10.
I think he was a very sensitive, emotional man.

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That's very sad - there are some Hortons on my grandmothers side - she was a Wakeman from Shropshire/Worcestershire area. Maybe a distant link

I'm however tracing my grandfathers side and that's enough for now!!!

[macwil]

Birth place is shown as the Town Shropshire which is a little strange

Just checked up on the family history of Benjamin, in 1861 age 6 he is living with family at his grandparents at The Down, Hopton Wafers. Still, he probably wasn't thinking clearly, so it didn't come across properly.