Some idle thoughts on records for the Allis families in London
In looking at whether some of the unaccounted people from families in Essex and Hertfordshire ended up in central London, either the city or those parts of Middlesex which are London, it struck me that there were so relatively few.
It might be thought there would be a big pull factor into the city. Perhaps there was but people could be anonymous and disappear, or get conscripted. I wonder if any of the men ended up unwillingly under their own or assumed names on Royal Navy ships, or joined pirate ships and died abroad (maybe I have been watching too many films). There are a few databases yet to be explored. It was noted before that many soldiers at the Tilbury fort were buried without names and a number of unknown people found on the shores of the Thames.
In general, how easy was it to disappear in the 18th and 19th centuries?
As said at the start, some very idle thoughts on why people can't be found apart from records being lost, not made and so on.
