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Margaret | Report | 12 Oct 2009 21:16 |
Hi, am a bit stuck on an entry on the 1901 census - listed is a daughter - Polly, aged 10. |
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Janice | Report | 12 Oct 2009 21:17 |
If she is 10 in 1901, she should be an infant in 1891. Can you find her there with the family? |
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Wildgoose | Report | 12 Oct 2009 21:20 |
Margaret - My great aunt Polly was really Mary; though goodness knows how they arrived at Polly from Mary! |
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Margaret | Report | 12 Oct 2009 21:22 |
no, can't find her in 1891 , she could have been born after the census date tho' as I'm finding the ages given on the census are rather inaccurate. |
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Margaret | Report | 12 Oct 2009 21:23 |
Ah, haven't tried Mary - thanks |
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Thelma | Report | 12 Oct 2009 21:24 |
Is she on the 1891? |
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Margaret | Report | 12 Oct 2009 21:27 |
have just found an entry for MARY in Dec 1891, think that must be her. Thank you everyone. |
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Janice | Report | 12 Oct 2009 22:05 |
If she was born in the last quarter of 1891, she would only be 9 in the 1901 census. |
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Madmeg | Report | 12 Oct 2009 22:17 |
Little known fact. Polly is a common variation for Mary. Didn't know myself either till I found a great aunt Polly. |
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Ozibird | Report | 12 Oct 2009 22:34 |
In middle-class families in the mid-eighteenth century "Sukey" was equivalent to "Susan" and Polly was a pet-form of Mary, as in 'Polly put the Kettle On'. |
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Heather | Report | 13 Oct 2009 11:01 |
Its normally Mary or Mary Ann |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 14 Oct 2009 01:27 |
Margaret |
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