Genealogy Chat

this must be it!

1841 Census 107/1031/17 Folio 10 page 12 Hanger About His wife One child One child Very useful that!! lolol Bev x

Well, I see this is why we can't find people. We should be looking under 'wife' or 'one child' instead of foolishly typing in names! I did find one the other day - 'adult male - refused to co-operate'. nell

Bev, When I did a GR search of people with the same names as me, I searched each surname by place. The places people were born included a house a hospital a road somewhere in town I kid you not!

That reminds me of a similar one that I posted on another thread a while ago. I forget which census it was, but it said something like 'a man, a woman, a boy, a girl, slept in empty house overnight, gone in the morning'. Their rellies aren't going to be finding them in a hurry...

* checks feverishly to see if I have that surname ... :-) * ................................................................................. Hello, cousin Bev ... :-) When searching a parish register, I came across a named person with ''a stranger'' next to his name. I thought - that's sad, did no one know him ? Joy

Mary, I nearly LOL to someone on the other end of the phone when I read that one! I have a census of who I think is my rellie in an assylum. The inmates were referred to as their initials, in my case, JC (no, not THE JC!) I wonder why they refered to them by initials only? Surely it couldn't be because they wanted to protect them from prying rellies generations down?

One of the addresses I've found says 'near the woods'!!!

On the 1851 census: 'Girl not named Davis'. That only leaves about 30 million possible names, then.

wonder 'what' colour? Name: Man of Colour Age: 30 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831 Relation: Lodger Gender: Male Where born: St Luke Civil parish: St Luke Ecclesiastical parish: Charterhouse St Thomas County/Island: Middlesex Country: England

My husbands tree has an ancestor in 1871 John Clements HARTLEY as head of the house the lady living with him Eliza PENN a widow is recorded as COHABITATING!! Bet they were well pleased with that LOL

The endless search for my mysterious 2 x GGP turned up the following family. I have high hopes it's him.. James Holding 70 Margaret Holding 70 James Holding 15 James Holding 15 James Holding 15. Another wild goose chase found me a James Holding rightish sort of age, with a wife and Jane Holding - age NOT KNOWN. I screeeeeamed! OC

Wow, OC, triplets born when mother was 55! Well, I know the chances of multiple births go up as you get older, but ............? Mind you, good idea to name them all James. I mean to say, what were the chances of triplets all surviving. I suppose they could call them Jim, Jimmy and Jamie. Surely one of that lot must be yours? But how would you ever know which one? Tina

my gt gt grandfather and gtgt grandmother are on the 1861 census as a man and woman! why couldnt the man taking the census details have written down their names? all the details around them show they are the people i am looking for: right employer right place time etc;

I do wonder if the enumerators in incidences like these just couldn't be bothered to find out the names, or whether the people involved refused to give their names! Bev x

Tina My thoughts entirely - one of them must be mine - which one, though!? This is of course the 1841 where the ages were rounded up and down and I know by the address given who James and Margaret are. I also know they have umpteen grandsons called James..... OC

Not useless census but usless parish records. The vicar that recorded alot of my ancestors births and marriages was left handed and had a leaky pen and no blotting paper! lol

'Ere you, us left-handers have a lot to put up with. I learned?? to write with a dipper pen (suck the new nib before using) and horrible ink made up from powder. The basins in the boys' toilets were always stained bright blue. The nib stuck in the paper and made blots, which the side of my little finger then smoothed out into a pale blue wash. It was only many years later that I read that pen nibs came in RH and LH varieties. My brother, 2 years younger, was taught to write with a ball-point pen. And just try cutting anything with scissors in your left hand. The hand-holes are the wrong shape and the blades are forced apart instead of together. It's a good thing that most hand tools are ambidextrous (if that term can be applied to an inanimate object). J

John A useless fact Did you know that genticists now believe that left-handed people are the surviving identical twin? (So called Mirror Image Identical Twins) OC

awww John *hugs* I wasn't being a meaney , It really brought it home how hard it was and is for lefties! ( quite lucky around here we have a lefties shop :D ) And much better than the vicar who seemed to have popped a spider in the inkwell and just let it run over the page ;)