Am trying to follow my great uncle Frederick Murrian baptised (as Frederick John Murrain) Milton Abbott 19 October 1875, a son of Richard and Mary. Apart from that occasion, he was always routinely called just Frederick or Fred - without the "John" In 1911 he was living at 4, (Trelawany House, new Cendle Terrace, Cwm, south Wales, as uncle of the "Head" (Sidney James Murrian - my grandfather-, and his wife, Florence Annie). Also there is Sidney's father, James, and a son (my father) Cyril James. Frederick is noted as being single, aged 35, born Lifton, Devonshire. In 1921 the family are all still at Cendle Terrace, (at that time there is another son of Sidney and Florence, - Sidney Harold Murrian - my uncle - who had been born in Cwm in 1913). Frederick is shown as being 47yr. 4 mths. born Milton Abbott and still single. However, the (two) Electoral Registers for 1922, show, in the first Register, that they were all still at Cendle Terrace but, in the second Register of that year, they are shown to have moved "just up the road" to 2 Woodville Road, Cwm - but Frederick is no longer then with them. The Registers for 2 Woodville Road continue to show the Murrians (but not Frederick) up to 1935 (by then excluding James who had died there in 1932) and it was about then that the rest of the family moved to Birmingham. My problem is what happened to Frederick. I have been unable to find him anywhere in the 1939 Register, but have found a probable death of him, from an Obituary in the Western Morning News of 5 May 1948, of the death (on May 3) of Frederick Murrain at Old Bedford, Horrabridge said to have been a "dearly beloved brother of Thursa (Giles)". There was certainly a Thirza, the youngest of the children of Richard and Mary Murrian, who married John Henry Giles in 1903. I also found his burial on 5 May 1948 in the Horrabridge burials Register where his age is given as having been 73. That made some sense actually, as my father had told me that his uncle Fred had worked on the construction of Burrator Reservoir which was in 1894-1898 and I has found that further work took place between 1923 - 1928. So maybe Frederick heard about that in 1922 and decided to move back to the locality of Horrabridge - where his sister seems to have been living - and applied for the further work on the reservoir. How might I find Horrabridge - or Yelverton - in the 1939 Registers to look generally through those, to see if Frederick might have been mis-transcribed therein
It would probably help if you had his date of birth when searching the 1939 Register.
Horrabridge is in Tavistock RD in 1939, so you could search by narrowing it down to that area.
If using FMP to search, you can use Horrabridge as a keyword.
By putting 'Bedford Road' into the street name (which is where 'Old Bedford' was if Google is correct), it does bring up some hits but paging forward gives some more hits in Bedford Road. No Fredericks, though.
The Tavistock constituency electoral rolls for 1945 and 1946 are held at the Plymouth and West Devon record office which may give you an idea when he moved to Horrabridge.
You can look for Horrabridge on 1939 census by just putting Horrabridge Devon, without any name in the advanced options, location in 1939. 17,000 odd though. Yelverton even more. I have looked through Horrabridge putting in various options but cannot find. I did find Old Bedford House, but the family living there was "Toms". Sally
Thank you Karen and Sally for your comments. Had wondered about Yelverton (grasping at straws) as well as Horrabridge (where Frederick seems to have been when he later died, as well as the home of his sister) as they seemed to be the main villages close to the Reservoir but there were a number of small groups of properties, as well as farms, close by any of which might have made accommodation available to the labourers. Furthermore searching through the 1939 localities appears to be nothing as easy as looking through Census districts. Too much of a massive task to search all possibilities to see if I could find Frederick, and if he might have been associated with a military unit (?territorial) he wouldn't have appearred in the 1939 Register anyway, so I'm just going to have to regard him at that time as another "brick wall" and give up any attempt to try any further. Thanks again. David
