Inspiration Needed Please!

[Barmaid]

I am in contact with a distant relative from Australia and we are both trying to find out what happened to one of our ancestors. Named Henry Hurry, he was born in 1829 in Thorney, Cambridgeshire to John Hurry and Hannah Bridges. In 1841 he is at school in Wisbech. We then lose all trace of him until he crops up in Australia in 1863. I can't find him on the 51 or 61 Census. I've tried National Archives, and familysearch but no joy. I don't have an international subscription to ancestry (just a national one) - does anyone know of any other resource that I can use to check to see if he emigrated much earlier than 1863. We have a hunch that he went via America, but as yet its befuddling us. All suggestions welcome.

[echokilo]

Sometimes the DOB on the census can be a year or 2 adrift, so think he IS in the 1851 census - gound this on ancestry by searching with +/- 3 years in DOB field:

1851 England Census
about Henry Hurry
Name: Henry Hurry
Age: 24
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1827
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary
Gender: Male
Where born: Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England

Civil Parish: Whittlesey
Ecclesiastical parish: Ely
County/Island: Cambridgeshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Disability: View Image

Registration district: North Witchford
Sub registration district: Chatteris
ED, institution, or vessel: 1e and 2e
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 35
Household Members: Name Age
Elizabeth Hurry 1
Henry Hurry 24
Mary Hurry 24

Thorney where you have him born and Whittlesey whre 1851 census has him born as not far apart and there are often slight differences on this also. AND there is no Henry Hurry born in Thornley/Whittlesey or anywhere else in Cambs in 1827, so I am convinced this is your man. There is a Henry Hurry on 1851 (on a UK wide search he is the only other one) showing as a vistiro in Lowestoft, but he was born there also)

CONT ... see my second post

[echokilo]

The same Henry Hurry is on the 1871 census, but this time with a DOB of 1824 (but being 4/5 years adrift is not unusual I have found):


Name: Henry Hurry
Age: 37
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1824
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary
Gender: Male
Where born: Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England

Civil Parish: Whittlesey
Town: Whittlesey
County/Island: Cambridgeshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage: View Image

Registration district: Whittlesey
Sub registration district: Whittlesey
ED, institution, or vessel: 7
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 74
Household Members: Name Age
Elizabeth Hurry 9
Henry Hurry 37
Jane Hurry 7
John Hurry 5
Mary Hurry 36
Mary Ann Hurry 3


Henry's wife Mary is listed as coming from Ramsey, Cambs on the 1851 census ...... so I think this is Henry's marriage record from 1849:

Name: Henry Hurrey
Year of Registration: 1847
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Huntingdon
County: Huntingdonshire
Volume: 14
Page: 248 (click to see others on page)

You can see the surname is spelt slightly differently, whih again is not unusual ...... and if this is him when you open the "otherson this page" option - the only Mary is a Mary Pain, who I would conclude is your Henry's wife.

What do you think??

[Barmaid]

Thank you echokilo for your efforts. Unfortunately, this is not the chap!! I can't remember who this chap's father is (without going back to my notes), but he is a cousin or a second cousin (the Hurrys originated in Whittlesey and then 3 brothers moved to Thorney to farm the Duke of Bedfords estate). In any event after he landed in Australia, he stayed there and raised a family. The Henry you have found also appears on the 41 Census as a servant, I think in the Livett household. My Henry was at school in Wisbech in 1841 (unfortunately, a transcription error has him down as Harry) with his brother James.

But thank you so much for your efforts.

[echokilo]

What a shame .... and I went to work this morning thinking I was a clever cloggs and had cracked it ..... I hope you solve your mystery, very frustrating at times isn't it!