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Could they have been listed twice if not at home?
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Jackie | Report | 8 Apr 2004 13:43 |
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Thankyou everyone. Trouble is I can't find a wife for the one on board ship though it does also say he is married. You are quite right -they could be cousins as the same names were used for generations throughout the family - and they have certainly given me a run around. There is a female fisherman's wife on the Brixham census with her family and no husband listed. I'm going round in circles! Jackie |
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Geoff | Report | 8 Apr 2004 13:38 |
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I have one in 1901 both with her family and visiting someone else. |
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(¯`*•.¸*Karen on the Coast*(¯`*•.¸ | Report | 8 Apr 2004 13:19 |
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My g g grandfather is listed as being at home on 1891 census and also listed on the ship that he was serving on at the time, so yes it is possible, Karen. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 8 Apr 2004 13:17 |
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Yes, it did happen. We have a case of children in 1881 recorded at their normal home with parents and also at the grandparents' house, where they actually were staying on census night. If everything matches, you may have found a double recording too. But.. don't forget the liking to name boys after grandfather so in theory you could have cousins with similar entries on a census. |
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Lovettpod | Report | 8 Apr 2004 13:14 |
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I think it's highly likely, my relly turned up in the workhouse and at home on the same census return, quite an unusual name and have found no others close by. So as a fellow lay person ...probably Helen |
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Simon | Report | 8 Apr 2004 13:05 |
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Someone may well say otherwise, but I would have thought that was quite possible. Either the wife might have mis-understood the instructions and, like you say, put him down (after all, she might have simply thought - 'oh, he's out at work' not realising that a separate census would be taken of the boat). Alternatively, I think I'm right in saying that households received their forms a few days in advance, much as we do today, and they might have just filled it in, in advance, not expecting hubby to be out at sea on the day that the forms were collected. As I say, I might be totally wrong in this - I haven't got any detailed knowledge of the process - but from a lay-persons point of view, I would think this could have happened. Simon |
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Jackie | Report | 8 Apr 2004 12:47 |
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Is it possible that a fisherman was listed on the 1881 census by his wife if he was on board a vessel and also by himself on the vessel? I know they were supposed to actually be at the address at the time. Has anyone come across this happeneing or am I living in hope? I have two people, born the same year + 1, same name/occupation, place of birth. Jackie |
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