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Sometimes you just have to accept that the enumerator might have made a mistake. I know that in the 1891 census my grandmother and her uncle were entered with the wrong names. The uncle is even down as a female! This is the entry:-

1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
North Gate Road, Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England

First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place

John Hammond Head Widower Male 56 1835 Agricultural Labourer Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England
Rachael Clark Servant Widow Female 47 1844 - Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England
George Clark Lodger Single Male 16 1875 Agricultural Labourer Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England
Charlotte Clark Lodger Single Female 12 1879 Scholar Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<(this should read Chapman Clark, male)
Elizabeth Clark Lodger Single Female 2 1889 - Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<(this should read Ethel Clark)

Both birth dates are correct and I know my grandmother Ethel was with her grandmother Rachel at the time, as was Chapman.

This is the 1901 census at same address:-

1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Northgate Road, Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England

First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place

John Hammond Head Widower Male 67 1834 Market Gardener Pinchbeck West, Lincolnshire, England
Rachel Clark House Keeper - Female 57 1844 - Pinchbeck West, Lincolnshire, England
Ethel Clark Housekeeper's Grand Daur - Female 12 1889 - Pinchbeck West, Lincolnshire, England<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Chapman Clark Lodger Single Male 22 1879 Hay Presser Pinchbeck West, Lincolnshire, England<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

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Bernadette - nothing to do with your query, but I notice in your Levi Atherton post, you appealed to a baptismal record to rsolve Levi's bride.

The surest way of resolving marrs pre-1912 is a local index - if one is available online - see http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/local_bmd

The relevant link here is
http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/
which gets the hit:
Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1900
Surname Forename(s) Surname Forename(s) Church / Register Office Registers At Reference
ATHERTON Levi KENNEDY Mary J Chorlton-on-Medlock, All Saints Archives+, Manchester Central Library 3/4/461

The last element of a local marr ref is usually an entry # (as here) - for Bs & Ds it is often a page #.
The first element of a local marr ref is a code indicating which series of registers has the marr - for Bs & Ds it is a subdistrict code.
Here the code identifies a church, and this index decodes it as Chorlton-on-Medlock, All Saints - not all indexes decode the series element.

I presume you used http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ for the baptism.
An obvious church for a baptism for this couple is Chorlton-on-Medlock, All Saints.

13 entries earlier than Levi's child is:

Baptism: 29 Aug 1900 All Saints, Chorlton on Medlock, Lancs.
Florence Cordon - [Child] of Samuel Cordon & Jane
Born: 5 Aug 1900
Abode: 38 Stafford St.
Occupation: Labourer
Baptised by: F. W, Goodyer Pain
Register: Baptisms 1884 - 1904, Page 250, Entry 2806
Source: LDS Film 2112983

http://www.marriage-locator.co.uk/

Is a useful finding tool 1837 - c1911
It's is still a work in progress.

This might not be very helpful; but the definition of mother-in-law has changed since the 19th century. A mother in law is what we now call a spouse's mother. In the 19th century a mother in law was the wife of one's father; what we now call a stepmother.