I found three of my four grandparents on the 1911 census online fairly soon after it was launched, but I couldn't trace my mother's father, Horace BROWN, nor other members of his family known to be alive at the time. A search on Horace (no surname), aged around 10, born in Sandy, and 'Lavinia' in the field for other person in household, finally revealed the family under the mis-transcribed surname of BRAWN. This is not actually very surprising as his mother, Lavinia (nee SEABY), as widowed head of household, did not write very clearly. She is 49 and working as a 'Cook Temporary' in 1911, living in five rooms at St Neots Road, Sandy with three sons Walter (13, a Telegram Messenger Boy); Horace (10) and George (7), both still at school.
Horace's sister Emily is found elsewhere, working, aged 17, as a general domestic servant in the household of George MODLIN, a Mechanical Engineer Surveyor, at 21 Ampshill Road, Bedford. Other sister Esther, 15, is also a domestic servant for a Mrs Williams, at 15 Penryn Road, East Acton.