Having found Joseph Angus' Police pension record the other day, I wanted to fill in some other gaps about his life. I had details of his marriage to Emma Earles and the censuses from 1851 to 1871, but no birth or death dates and no census entries from 1881 onwards. Joseph is shown as deceased on his son's marriage certificate from 1902. There is a Joseph Angus who dies in 1900 in London and is the right age, but to confirm it's him, I'll have to order the certificate - one for another day.
With a subscription to Ancestry and some credits on Find My Past, I reckoned I should be able to find him on the censuses. Searching 1881 on Ancestry he came up straight away. 1891 was a different matter. After some time putting in various searches, I came up empty handed. Switching to Find My Past a likely candidate came up first time. I downloaded the page and confirmed it. So why couldn't I find him on Ancestry? Now knowing the exact census reference, I found him under the name Joseph Agens with his birth place given as Seaberghan (should be Sebergham)
Looking at it I could see it said Angus, but I could also see why someone with no connection to the family could have read it differently. A timely reminder that, fantastic as it is to have all the censuses online, if they are poorly transcribed searching them can be very frustrating. I submitted the real names as changes to Ancestry and looked at the clock. Nearly midnight again, time for bed!
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