by SRD » Fri Aug 17, 2018 7:07 am
Thanks for looking, 'family sources' suggest that he left with the idea that he would call for the family to join him later, which suggests that he didn't sneak away which mitigates against an assumed name, but, if Francis is Frank, he changed his name soon after arriving. Frank shows on the UK census for 1911 and Francis in the Canadian census some three months later and the evidence of that Canadian Census - immigrated 1911, no occupation - suggests that he'd only recently arrived.
What I don't know is whether Fanny's marriage to Bish was bigamous, whether she got a divorce or had Frank declared dead, he'd only been gone 12 years, would that have been long enough to have him declared dead?
Currently investigating the Hillmans of Sussex.