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Query - Hooton Roberts, Yorkshire?
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Jackie | Report | 10 May 2004 10:14 |
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Yes -the family lived in the Attercliffe, Nether Hallam, Ecclesall Bierlow areas of Sheffield. Will have to get my map out and check Parloc for directions and distances. I am not yet making any assumptions, as most of the family were christened at Sheffield Cathedral. Jackie |
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Dave the Tyke | Report | 10 May 2004 09:35 |
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I dont know what census questionairs used to say but now they ask who is where at a particular time. So isn't it possible that your rellies were staying elsewhere at the time? lol Dave |
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Stan | Report | 9 May 2004 23:59 |
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Hi Jackie Hooton Roberts was in the Rotherham Registration District. Geoff's guess might be correct - that they went to live in Sheffield when the child was young - but it could of course be that there are two people with the same name born ten miles apart. I've obtained several wrong certificates due to such problems. Regares Stan |
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Geoff | Report | 9 May 2004 23:02 |
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I think it depends rather on how much the family moved around - sometimes the family couldn't remember who was born where. If the child first remembers Sheffield he might think that was his birthplace. I've had someone whose birthplace was given as Cumberland on one census and County Durham on the next (correct). Someone who in 1881 gave the place he was living (although then aged 42) but in 1901 gave his correct birthplace. Another couple who gave their ages as 21 in 1881 despite having a 7yo kid but in 1891 knew their correct ages - by that time they had kids who could read perhaps. Someone born in Ireland on one census but Cumberland on the next (adults not kids). Literacy (or the lack of it) certainly played a part. Hooton Roberts is only 10 miles from the centre of Sheffield. |
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Unknown | Report | 9 May 2004 22:17 |
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Who knows? I do know that some of my rellies put down registration districts rather than actual villages, so perhaps your rellie [or more likely the census enumerator] put it instead. Or maybe he was born in Sheffield but baptised in Hooton Roberts because he had relatives there. Have you tried seeing Hooton Roberts is listed as anyone else's birthplace? I had confusion with one gt grandparent whose birthplace was Langham, North Norfolk, but the census said Langley, which was very near where she was living in 1881, and I spent ages trying to find her locally. Another gt grandmother's birthplace was given as Farnham, and I thought it was Surrey as she was living in Surrey at the time of the census, but it turned out it was Farnham Royal, in Buckinghamshire. I have learnt that anything is possible! |
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Jackie | Report | 9 May 2004 22:11 |
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If someone had been baptised in Hooton Roberts, would he have put his place of birth down as Sheffield or Rotherham on census returns? Believe that Hooton Roberts is nearer Rotherham than Sheffield.However on all returns he stated he was born in Sheffield. Could it be him born Hooton Roberts, or not? Your thoughts please. Jackie |
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