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Trying to find Christopher Oswin Booker in 1891 and 1901
Can anyone help track down this elusive ancestor?
Christopher Oswin Booker was born in 1863 in Shropshire, the son of Joseph Booker and Ann nee Icke. His father Joseph was a farmer of 374 acres employing 9 labourers and 4 boys.
On the 1881 census the family were in Cannock where Christopher's father was an agent. He is on the family census entries up to and including 1881.
In January 1888 he married Agnes Rebecca Sophia Keene (I don't know precisely where though), the marriage being registered in March 1888 in West Bromwich. They had a boy - Charles Oliver Booker, born 13 April 1888 at Oldbury, Worcester - also in the West Bromwich registration district. By the 1891 census this boy Charles was living as a foster son of Hannah and Albert Guest. (in Warley, Worcester). On the 1891 census his mum Agnes R S Booker was 'married' and living with her parents in Oldbury but without her husband.
In 1897 his wife Agnes Booker had Amy Laura Keene, born 9 Oct 1897 who was illegitimate. Her birth certificate says her mother was a domestic servant and her name was Agnes (no middle names). In the 1901 Census, Amy is a visitor to a family in the Chorlton area. It seems likely that Christopher and Agnes were living apart?
On the 1901 census Agnes was a servant in Manchester, saying she was a widow, but living under her maiden name of Keene.
We cannot track down Christopher at all in the 1891 and 1901 census. He died in Kings Norton in 1908, and there is no doubt about this from family records, and from his will.
His occupation was that of a commercial traveller, which may explain his absences. Can anyone help track him down in 1891 and 1901?
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