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For the last few months I have been trying to locate a Thomas Bromilow, son of George and Catherine Bromilow on the 1891 Census. Thomas Bromilow father George committed suicide in 1890 and I have an address of 4 in 5 Court Prussia Street. I tried all variations of the surname, looked at the original fiche, until I came to the conclusion that the 1891 census enumerator had missed out part of the Courts in Prussia Street. So I took a copy of the electoral Roll for 1891 to prove this. I searched for a John Keating who in the electoral roll is recorded as living at 12 in 5 Court Prussia Street. And I located John Keating and his address is recorded as 12 Rushton Court.

And on the previous page I had a Eureka moment.


Hannah Barke-67-Bag Worker-Ireland
Thomas Bromilow 8 Grandson-School-Liverpool
John Murray-19-Grandson-Carter-Liverpool
Margaret Murrary-18-Grand Dau-Liverpool
Thomas Murrary-2mos-Liverpool.

Their address is recorded as 4, Rushton Court.

Only for taking a copy of the Voters register I would not have found them.

Katie wrote:For the last few months I have been trying to locate a Thomas Bromilow, son of George and Catherine Bromilow on the 1891 Census. Thomas Bromilow father George committed suicide in 1890 and I have an address of 4 in 5 Court Prussia Street. I tried all variations of the surname, looked at the original fiche, until I came to the conclusion that the 1891 census enumerator had missed out part of the Courts in Prussia Street. So I took a copy of the electoral Roll for 1891 to prove this. I searched for a John Keating who in the electoral roll is recorded as living at 12 in 5 Court Prussia Street. And I located John Keating and his address is recorded as 12 Rushton Court.

And on the previous page I had a Eureka moment.


Hannah Barke-67-Bag Worker-Ireland
Thomas Bromilow 8 Grandson-School-Liverpool
John Murray-19-Grandson-Carter-Liverpool
Margaret Murrary-18-Grand Dau-Liverpool
Thomas Murrary-2mos-Liverpool.

Their address is recorded as 4, Rushton Court.

Only for taking a copy of the Voters register I would not have found them.

Great tip, thank you

I can see now why I haven't found some of mine. It's all to do with the searches on the various websites and how they've been transcribed by the various companies.

Yesterday I sat there with hard copies from some censuses yet I couldn't find them in either The Genealogist or Find My Past.

But I knew they existed as I had the evidence in my hands!!

I also used the facility to correct errors 3 times!!

Job not Jon

Henrietta not Harriet

Smithdown Rd not Smith Down Road