It was a typical Spring day on Friday ... blustery weather with
occasional showers, when the eagerly awaited, long anticipated book
arrived: Bill Roulston's /Researching Farming Ancestors in Ireland./ I'm
already well into it now, but had barely started, when the author used
his own family as an example when discussing Irish Censuses.
Researchers, particularly new comers to genealogy, could be interested
in his discussion of the census records of his great-great-grandfather.
In brief ...
In the 1901 return, the census shows his g-g-grandfather as an unmarried
30-year-old-farmer. Bill then goes on to caution the researcher to
always treat ages with caution - even in census returns! Roulston's
ancestor, Charles, was in fact 35 in 1901!
Moving on to the 1911 census, Chaarles had married and his age in the
Census was given as 50, when it should have been 45!! (He hadn't aged 20
years in 10). His wife was suposedly aged 30, when in fact she was 33,
so what appeared to be a 20-year age gap between them was in reality 13
years!
(ref: para 2.3.2 Census Returns 1901-11; /Household Return (Form A),/ p27-8)
'Nuf said.
Enjoy, Gordon
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