Great x3 Half Uncle Edwin 'Edward' John Boobier

My Great x3 Half Uncle Edwin (1858 - 1???) was an older half brother of my Great Great Grandfather Walter Boobier (1871 - 1924).

Edwin was born on 30th April 1858, in Tiverton, to William Boobier (about 32), a stone mason, and Emma Boobier (nee Kimmings) (about 32), a laundress.

Edwin was baptised on 1st Dec 1858 in St Peter, Tiverton.

Edwin was the fifth of eight children (six sons and two daughters):

• William Edwin Kimmings  1850 - 1851 (14 months)
• Thomas Philip  1851 - 1907  (55 years old)
• William Donald  1854 - 1855 (about 1 year and half)
• Emma Grace  1855 - 1911 (54 years old)
• Edwin John  1858 - 1??? 
• William Edwin  1861 -
• Lucy Janet/Jeanette  1863 - 1863 (0 - 3 months)
• George Albert  1864 - 
  

Two of Edwin's older siblings passed away before he was born - both were called William. 

In Oct/Nov/Dec 1851, his eldest brother William Edwin Kimmings passed away, aged about fourteen months.

In May 1855, William Donald passed away, aged about thirteen months. He was buried on 17th May 1855, in St Peter in Tiverton.

1861 Census: 

In Jan/Feb/Mar 1863, when Edwin was four, his baby sister, Lucy, passed away, aged zero to three months, in Tiverton.

In January 1867, when Edwin was eight, his mother Emma passed away, aged about forty. She was buried on 24th January 1867 in Exeter. Edwin's father remarried the next year. William (about 41) married Jane Mutter (about 30) in May/June 1868. 

Edwin had four younger half brothers:

• Robert  1869 -
• Walter  1871 -
• Alfred  1873 -
• Frederick  1874 -

In the mid-late 1860's, Edwin and his family moved from Tiverton to Exeter.

1871 Census: 

Despite my best search, I cannot presently find Edwin in any records after the 1871 Census, when he was thirteen. Hopefully I will one day be able to find out more information about his life.

Did he pass away? Move away? Change his name?

A clue!

On Edwin's brother George's army service record (he enlisted in 1884), he gives his next of kin as his father William and surviving full siblings: Thomas, Edward, William and Grace. So Edwin was seemly alive and going by Edward in the 1880's!

Whilst their sister Emma Grace stayed in their native Tiverton, the brothers moved. Thomas went to Bristol in the 1870's, William went to Wales in the 1880's and then Bristol, and George travelled the world in the army before moving to Surrey.

Did Edwin/Edward move away too?