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Just realised I have a gap which I should be able to trace, but I can't?
My grandfather and his brothers were born in Blackburn.
1891 census parents James and Jane Elizabeth Sumner with Henry age 4
Robert age 2
John age 9 months are in Darwin Blackburn.
1901 they are all at 16 union St.Brierfield

I checked the 1911 census and only Henry appears anywhere, he is married and in Brierfield.
I know John died in 1935 and is buried at the Inghamite church, I think he and wife did move back towards Accrington area.
My grandfather Henry died in about 1956/57
Robert is the one who was always around in my lifetime but he appears to have been married to wife no. 2 Florence when I was born.
I can't find him on the 1911 census although he appears to have been in Nelson in the time i knew them.

I have only realised recently that I know nothing about Bob's first wife, mother of Olga.
He may have been married by 1911 and doubtful whether he would move further than Brierfield or Nelson, but I can't find him or trace wife no. !

Anyone any ideas

I would like to take this opportunity to facetiously add that I also have a missing link on my family tree (in two senses of the word).

1. He is missing in the sense that I can't place him. He has the same surname as my Greatx3 Grandma but all it says on the back of his photo is "J. Meagher JP / Monsea House, Nenagh / Co. Tipp / B. to Lily"

2. He is clearly a missing link. Somewhere between Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens. You will note that the subject is missing a large chunk of ear. His eyes stare penetratingly...in different directions. Where the nose is almost unbelievably strong, the chin suffers greatly in comparison. Then there's the hands. *Very* hairy hands.

"JP" means Justice of the Peace. I would not like this man's justice. Nor would I trust him to be a man of peace.

Hannah, Could this be the one?

1909
SUMNER Robert Edward married REYNOLDSON Susannah, Brierfield, Methodist Chapel (Colne Rd)

1910
PRESTON Florrie married HALLIDAY Archibald Burnley Register Office or Registrar Attended

1931
SUMNER * Robert Edward married HALLIDAY Florrie Brierfield, Methodist Chapel, Burnley Rd (formerly Primitive Methodistl Chapel

Name: Susannah Sumner
Death Registration Month/Year: 1924
Age at death (estimated): 34
Registration district: Burnley
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 8e
Page: 323


Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1890

REYNOLDSON Susannah Burnley Preston BU/191/34

1901 census - 7 Halifax Road, Brierfield

John R Reynoldson, head, 34, b 1867, Swaldale, Yorkshire
Sarah A wife, 37, b 1864, Brierfield, Lancashire
Susannah daughter, 11, b 1890, Fence, Lancashire
John W son, 9, b 1892, Fence, Lancashire
Horace son, 6, b 1895, Fence, Lancashire
Gilbert son, 3, b 1898, Fence, Lancashire

THANK YOU!!!! Patricia. Yet again you have uncovered something I couldn't.

You have in fact answered something I hadn't even thought of asking. Uncle Bob's wife was a Reynoldson of Brierfield.

There was a family called Reynoldson who owned a small garden centre/nursery and the town centre florist, for most of my life time. I knew my family had known them for a long time, but, no one told me they were related.

I knew my late gt. uncle and my grandfather spent a lot of time up at the garden centre/nursery helping in their free time, now I know why ( apart from the fact they were keen gardeners with no gardens at that time in their life) Why don't I know someone like them???)
It was a very confusing household to me as a small child, I knew Florence was no.2, there was a daughter Olga, divorced and living with them ( she looked as old as her stepmother to my young eyes, she had two sons, my second cousins I suppose who I have never met. Families are very funny, as in weird!!. I have two second cousins who's names and habitat I know nothing about and yet I have , with all your help, spent two years tracing 2nd cousins all around the world.