Missing Person (1861)

I have been trying to find a relative (Mary Horrobin) in the 1861 census on
Ancestry with no joy.

Found her in 1841, 1851 and 1871 as Mary Horroben, Horrobin and Howobin
respectively. In all cases she was living at Back Bow Street in Little
Bolton, Lancashire - so was likely there in 1861.

No luck searching for her in 1861 though so I went through all the
enumeration district descriptions trying to find Back Bow Street. No luck. I
can find streets around it but not the one I am after.

I note the enumeration districts are numbered 1 to 22. Number 5 is missing
from the sequence though and is where I might expect to find Back Bow Street
as those districts either side are in the All Saints parish - which is where
I believe Back Bow Street to be. Does the missing district 5 indicate
missing data or do district numbers not necessarily run consecutively?

Jeff...

Is this her?
Name: Mary A Horrabin

Astral Voyager...

Nice try Jeff - I thought you were going to make me red faced... but not the
Mary I am looking for.

Thanks for looking.

Age: 43
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1818
Relation: Wife
Spouse's name: Robert
Gender: Female
Where born: Pendleton, Lancashire, England

Civil Parish: Little Bolton
Ecclesiastical parish: St George
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street address: Gaskell Street

Registration district: Bolton
Sub-registration district: Little Bolton
ED, institution, or vessel: 18e

Household schedule number: 85
Household Members: Name Age
Elizabeth Horrabin 18
Eliza J Horrabin 20
Mary A Horrabin 43
Robert Horrabin 47

Class: RG9; Piece: 2824; Folio: 12; Page: 18

Daniel Morgan...

I would expect district numbers to run consecutively without gaps, but
it wouldn't surprise me all that much if there are exceptions.

District 4 ends on folio 115 of piece RG9/2820. The description for
District 6 is on folio 1 of piece RG9/2821. So I would expect District
5 to be at the end of piece RG9/2820. The National Archives catalogue
entry for this piece says nothing about anything being missing. Nor
does the FamilySearch microfilm catalog entry.

One possibility is that Ancestry failed to scan that district (or
mislabelled it, etc.). You might try another source: Lancashire 1861 is
indexed fully at 1837online (both on its own site and at British
Origins) and at least partially at The Genealogist. FreeCEN has done
part of the county, but not that part. Or of course there's always
microfilm.