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Petrina

Petrina Report 5 Jun 2008 11:48

I have been looking for a family in the 1871 census for years. Got them on the others despite them using Step names and being mis spelled etc. I knew the head of family died a few months later at the address they were at in 1861 so I had even gone through the census page by page for that area. No joy!
Looking at another family in a village miles away I scrolled back a page to find if there was a street name and suddenly there was my missing lot! They were living practically next door! The name had been mistranscribed. It explains how many years later two boys from one family married two girls from the other!
I am now going to go back and look at all the census images before and after the ones bookmarked. Marrying the boy next door was probably quite common in those days!

robertpplane

robertpplane Report 5 Jun 2008 11:52

Well done Petrina. It proves that patience and peserverence pays.

Petrina

Petrina Report 5 Jun 2008 12:15

Thanks Robert. It also shows I should have taken the advice, to check pages before and after, as given on here before! I HAVE had some great results at times by Googling seemingly bizarre snippets, but had never really bothered exploring the census properly. I'm quite excited by what else I might find.

Sheila

Sheila Report 13 Jun 2008 16:45

Congratulations on finding your missing family. I know how good it felt to find mine after years of searching. I only found them because they had a cousin staying with them on census night - apart from hers, all the surnames were wrong and I hadn't expected to find them in Leeds!

Someone advised me to look up and down the street on the census. If I'd done that I would have realised a lot sooner that OH's gg parents met because her brother lived next door but one to the father of the man she married!

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