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Doris Enid Austin (formally Bristow) was born 1894 Lambeth, (12 Roupell St) vanished 1930 Oxfordshire. she left 4 children aged 7 and under, and has never been heard of since. Her father was Henry George Bristow and mother Helen (or Sarah) Bristow (formally Tickner). If anyone has any further information, or there are any decendants of her sisters or brother, please get in touch. Doris's children are still all alive, but would like to know where there mother disappeared to. They were all living in Bladon or Woodstock area, Oxfordshire at the time, along with Arthur Austin her husband. There is a rumour 'she took the name of another man'. Any information at all would be most welcome.

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England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
about Doris E Austin Name: Doris E Austin
Birth Date: abt 1894
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1962
Age at Death: 68
Registration district: Wandsworth
Inferred County: Greater London
Volume: 5d
Page: 726

Hi this looks like her in 1901

1901 census

Address 12 Roupell St
Civil Parish Lambeth
Rural District
Town or Village or Hamlet
Ecclesiastical Parish Lambeth St Andrew
Parliamentary Borough or Division N Divn Lambeth
County Borough, Municipal Borough or Urban District Lambeth Borough
Administrative County London

Householder 1
Name Doris Bristow
Relation to Head of Family Daughter
Condition as to Marriage
Age Last Birthday 6
Sex Female
Profession or Occupation
Employment Status
Where Born London Lambeth
Language
Infirmity

Householder 2
Name Edith Bristow
Relation to Head of Family Daughter
Condition as to Marriage Single
Age Last Birthday 16
Sex Female
Profession or Occupation
Employment Status
Where Born London Lambeth
Language
Infirmity

Householder 3
Name Ethel Bristow
Relation to Head of Family Daughter
Condition as to Marriage
Age Last Birthday 13
Sex Female
Profession or Occupation
Employment Status
Where Born London Lambeth
Language
Infirmity

Householder 4
Name Helen Bristow
Relation to Head of Family Wife
Condition as to Marriage Married
Age Last Birthday 47
Sex Female
Profession or Occupation
Employment Status
Where Born Woolwich Kent
Language
Infirmity

Householder 5
Name Henry Bristow
Relation to Head of Family Head
Condition as to Marriage Married
Age Last Birthday 55
Sex Male
Profession or Occupation Newsagents Assistant
Employment Status
Where Born London City
Language
Infirmity

Householder 6
Name John J Glading
Relation to Head of Family Boarder
Condition as to Marriage Single
Age Last Birthday 22
Sex Male
Profession or Occupation Engineers Pattern Maker
Employment Status
Where Born London Blackfriars
Language
Infirmity

Householder 7
Name George Tickuer
Relation to Head of Family Step Son
Condition as to Marriage Single
Age Last Birthday 18
Sex Male
Profession or Occupation News Agents Assistant
Employment Status
Where Born London Lambeth
Language
Infirmity

Name Doris Enid Bristow
Year of Registration 1894
Quarter of Registration Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District Lambeth
Registration County London
Mother's maiden name
Volume Number 1D
Volume Page 347

1911 census

Household information
Address Swerford Enstone Oxon
Parish Swerford
Type of Building Private House
Number of Rooms Six
Inhabited Y
Reference RG14PN8260 RG78PN423 RD157 SD2 ED10 SN47
Administrative County Oxfordshire
Registration District Chipping Norton
Registration Sub District Chipping Norton
Enumeration District 10

Householder 1
Name Henry George Bristow
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Condition / Years Married / Years
Gender M
Age 65
Estimated Year of Birth 1846
Occupation News Agent Pensioner
Employed Y
Working at Home N
Place of Birth London City

Householder 2
Name Helen Bristow
Relationship to Head of Household Wife
Condition / Years Married / 27 Years
Total Children Born Alive 3
Children Still Living 3
Children Who Have Died 0
Gender F
Age 58
Estimated Year of Birth 1853
Employed N
Working at Home N
Place of Birth Kent Woolwich

Householder 3
Name Doris Enid Bristow
Relationship to Head of Household Daughter
Condition / Years Married / Years
Gender F
Age 16
Estimated Year of Birth 1895
Employed N
Working at Home N
Place of Birth London Lambeth

Thanks for various replys. We (my cousins and I) have a fair amout of information up to her vanishing act in about March 1930. I have tried several death certificates, but unfortunately they weren't her. There was another Doris Bristow (married name) around Wandsworth. I have yet to find much information about Ethel, Doris's sister, or George Tickner, Doris's step brother, (child of Sarah - called herself Helen Bristow ne' Tickner). I have some information about Doris's step sister Helen Bristow, (she married into a family from Souldern Oxfordshire), but cannot find anyone with even the smallest hint of where Doris went. If she was buried in another name, then it is a brick wall, until someone starts looking into it, but we all keep looking. There were several Doris Bristows in the Emigration records to America and other places, so you never know, she may pop out of the woodwork one day!