Genealogy Chat

The earlier English censuses only record children surviving to census day. Just look at freeBMD for almost any name and see all those deaths at age=0 - I think that's your explanation.

And occasionally, very occasionally something odd happens.

I'm doing a One Name Study and one of the things I try to do is put together "trees" for them. Some are a bit conjectural but it's good for the little grey cells so I try. On one of them I noticed that the wife had suddenly lost 10 years in age between censuses. Weird. The next census and she was still 10 years younger. Evern weirder. It took me a while to unpick but, wife no. 1 had died so he had remarried. Wife no. 2 (same forename as wife no. 1) was born in roughly the same area and was exactly 10 years younger!

It can't happen often, but it must happen at times ... just be prepared for the oddities that this game will throw at you!

Jill

Thanks for the info will see if it becomes any clearer after viewing these records:)

www.1881-census.co.uk/

and
www.familysearch.org/

There are often wrong ages, and also mistranscriptions, eg 27 on the transcript and 37 on the original image.

does any one else find there are often big age gaps for some relatives in the census information. i have followed family members throughout the years and at one point there appears to be an age difference of almost 10 years for one relative! is this possible?.... does anyone know where i can get hold of 1881 census records?

feeling confuddled
T