I had never been able to find Charles Allen in the 1900 census, which is the last census he was in before he died in 1905. In conjunction with re-starting the research on the Chapman line, I am going back to census records for the rest of the C-A-T people. Mostly, this involves UK census records before they all came to the USA, but I decided to make sure the census records were as complete as I could get them for all family groups.

And so I finally found Charles Allen, written on the census record as Carly Allen. Duh. This enumerator had sloppy handwriting, and the indexer wasn’t much better. But yeah, it says Carly. It’s hard to research a common name like Allen (and Chapman, and Thompson) because it takes so long going through all the names, even when they are indexed correctly. I probably had looked at this entry in the index previously, but this time the name Carly just jumped out at me and screamed, Look At Me! And sure enough, that was really Charles. The census says he was born in “Ingland” LOL.