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People entered twice in same census year
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Michael | Report | 18 Aug 2010 22:35 |
Can any kind soul please remind me how a person could be registered in two places in the same census. I am sure there was a thread on this subject at some time! |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 18 Aug 2010 22:51 |
well remember the thread but can't call it up !. Anyway it did happen if the person was away from home and both addresses filled them in. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 18 Aug 2010 22:56 |
Similarly... |
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Thelma | Report | 18 Aug 2010 23:51 |
That rang a bell! |
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Richard in Perth | Report | 19 Aug 2010 01:48 |
I have a whole family who appear twice on the 1841! Two different enumerators, so I assume that they must have overlapped by mistake and both entered the details for this family. Makes you wonder though - why didn't the head of family tell the second guy that they'd already been done?! |
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Madmeg | Report | 19 Aug 2010 01:53 |
Yep, My Thomas Holland and wife are in two places at once - once at home with their children, and again with his dying brother. 50 miles apart in 1881. Not possible to have nipped back. |
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mgnv | Report | 19 Aug 2010 03:02 |
I've come across two instances. The first was on Ancestry, and the households were identical, including the h/h # and census ref. However, the images were slightly differently skewed. Looking at the image IDs, one was from the end of one roll, and the other from the start of the next, and each had been transcribed independently. There was a minor difference in pob for a partial family (complete on two images of first roll). |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 19 Aug 2010 06:18 |
I have a 'visitor' example in my tree. The addresses are about half a mile apart. |
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Peter | Report | 19 Aug 2010 08:09 |
One of my great-grandmothers was censused twice: at home with the family and in the household of the family for whom she was in service (a quarter mile walk from her home). Perhaps the confusion here arose because she was "at home" on Sunday night but "in service" on the Monday morning? |
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Pam | Report | 19 Aug 2010 08:28 |
I found a Mersey Ferry Boat Captain both at home and at work. |
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Michael | Report | 19 Aug 2010 10:45 |
Many thanks friends. I found an entry for a child at his parents address and at his grandfathers. I guess his parents included him as "normally resident at that address" and grandfather just included him because he was there! |
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Potty | Report | 19 Aug 2010 11:49 |
You will quite often find Royal Navy seaman recorded twice in the census, under their vessel and at home. The vessell image will have "not" before "on board" at the top of the page. It would appear that all the personnel for a ship were recorded whether or not they were on board on the census day. |