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I am trying to trace my grandfather back to Switzerland. he was born in 1879 in the canton of Bern. I know he was in London on the 1911 census, and possibly in the 1901, but I cannot find any trace of him arriving in England or birth records in Switzerland. his name was Emil Heinrich Hess. can anyone help please.

Name: Emil Henry Hess (Sadler)
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1879
Age: 23
Spouse Name: Edith Adelaide Leadbeater
Spouse Age: 21
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 17 Apr 1902
Parish: West Green Christ Church
Borough: Haringey
Father Name: Henry Hess (Foreman in Cotton Factory)
Spouse Father Name: John Leadbeater
Register Type: Parish Register


1911 - for ref.

Name: Emil H Hess
Age in 1911: 32
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1879
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Kirchber of Bow, Switzerland
Civil parish: Tottenham
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Street Address: 72 Langham Road, West Green, S Tottenham, Tottenham N
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Foreman Motor Carriage Trimmer
Registration district: Edmonton
Registration District Number: 132
Sub-registration district: West Tottenham
ED, institution, or vessel: 23
Household schedule number: 162
Piece: 7300
Household Members: Name Age
Emil H Hess 32
Edith A Hess 30
John H Hess 7
Una G Hess 5
Barbara Hess 2
Margery Hess 0
Alice M Patts 36

In 1901 - he gives his birthplace as Germany?

Name: Emil Hess
Age: 22
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1879
Relation: Boarder
Gender: Male
Where born: Deu German Sub

Civil parish: Whitechapel
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mark
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:<<<<<<<<<Sadler

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: Whitechapel
Sub-registration district: Goodmans Fields
ED, institution, or vessel: 8
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 299
Piece: 306
Folio: 56
Page Number: 60



(Big list of names so may be some sort of lodgings)

Re the 1901 census, address is 88/90 Lemon street.

First name/Head on the list is Willhem Muller who says he is the secretary of the Christian Home for Artisans, and is the employer, working at home, so some form of lodgings as rootgatherer suggests?

EDIT:

Seems to have been some sort of German YMCA:

"Now, in addition to the long-established work amongst the merchant clerks, the Association started work for other specific groups like bakers, butchers, barbers, tailors, and artisans in general. The “Christian Home for German Artisans and Bakers” was opened in 1887 at 90 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, E.C. In relation to the large number of unemployed, the 14 beds available could only be seen as a beginning and the hostel was transferred in 1889 to 88/90 Leman Street, Whitechapel, E. There was initially room for 36 beds, increased in 1892 to 63 beds, with dining facilities and a meeting room."

http://www.german-ymca.org.uk/about-us-history.html

Emil H Hess
England and Wales Census, 1911
birth: Kirchber Ox Born Switzerland
census: 1911 Tottenham,? ,? Middlesex,? England


name: Emil H Hess
event: Census
event date: 1911
gender: Male
age: 32
birthplace: Kirchber Ox Born Switzerland
record type: Household
registration district: Edmonton
sub-district: West Tottenham
parish: Tottenham
county: Middlesex

Possibly Kirchberg, Bern , as birthplace going by census 1911?


Edit.

A wine making family Hess was associated with that area, but it's probably a common enough surname:

"Switzerland’s Hess Group has roots dating back to 1844, when its founder, Johann Heinrich Hess, founded a brewery in Kirchberg, in canton Bern.

Even until recently, the family was run by the fourth-generation Donald Hess."

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index/Hess_sweetens_its_Australian_wine_bid.html?cid=3557830

Kirchber is what I found so sounds right

I've asked Keith to return