1921 Census - finally found!

[ElizabethHerts]

When the 1921 Census came out I searched in vain for my father, who was born in Glasgow in 1920.

I couldn't find him in either the England or Scotland Census, despite looking high and low.

This morning I thought I'd try again. I tried with first names and birth places. No luck for my father or grandfather, but when I searched for my grandmother, Mary Isabella, born 1896 at Dumfries I got a hit for Mary Isabella Rowe at Kingston in Surrey.


Jocelyn Rowe Head Male 1886 35 Allahabad, India Soldier (Army) Camsey -
Margaret Rowe Wife Female 1885 36 Surbiton, Surrey, England Home Duties -
Anthony Rowe Son Male 1918 3 Ashbury, Devon, England - -
Frederick Rowe Head Male 1891 29 Manchester, Lancashire, England Mechanical Engineers (Head Designer) The Mitchell Coveyor Transport Co Ltd Contracting Engineers
Mary Isabella Rowe Wife Female 1896 24 Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland - -
Frederick Charles Rowe Son Male 1920 1 Lanarkshire, Scotland - -


The image clearly shows the surname as Alexander but the transcription is wrong. I knew they lived at Kingston for a while but I wasn't sure when they moved there.