Since your note reveals that the G=GFather likely arrived here mid-Nineteenth Century, I would suggest that you first see if any records remain of those who came into the ports of England during the days or months when he might have arrived. It is a good guess (yet not atall certain) that he returned to visit his old home, and did so through the port through which he had emigrated when he made the original journey to here.
Then too, once you learn "WHERE" he was born there, you will find MUCH in the local archives of that shire (county) or in the larger collections of Britain. I would make a diligent search to locate the place of hid both.
If you find no record of him leaving here, arriving there, in his old home county, or then arriving here for his return trip, you may GUESS that he either decided to stay elsewhere in his old home country or was lost at sea.
As to the latter, there are many records of ships lost at sea, and no small measure of those may be found at the Mariners' Museum and Library in Hampton, VA.
Here is the URL for that museum/library; the folks are VERY helpful and friendly, so you need not be intimidated. By the way, it is the largest collection of such records in the western hemisphere.
http://www.mariner.org/library/about_us/index.php
That library also has the massive Lloyd's of London shipwreck collection. Failing that effort, I will guess that you will be called upon to visit or pay someone to search in Britain.
Genealogy without documentation is nothing.
Paul Drake JD
Genealogist & Author
<www.DrakesBooks.com>
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I RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN A FAMILY BIBLE THAT ONE OF MY FATHER'S GREAT GRAND FATHERS WAS FROM ENGLAND. HE RAISED A FAMILY HERE AND WENT BACK FOR A VISIT. THE FAMILY NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN AND ASSUMED HE WAS LOST AT SEA. CAN ANYONE SUGGEST HOW I CAN RESEARCH WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM? THANKS.
RITA CARR
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