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Why does Oswald disappear from the records after 1881?

JANET BOSWORTH got in touch for help with her brick wall: Oswald George Jones

Q I can find no trace of my ancestor Oswald George Jones after the 1881 census. He was baptised on 7 March 1858 at Christ Church, Cobridge, and married Sarah Ann Hambleton in March 1874 in Stoke-on-Trent.

In 1881, Oswald (29, and a

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