Highly recommended. Evelyn Cardwell
Get BlueMail for Android On 5 Oct 2021, 04:09, at 04:09, Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList <[email protected]> wrote: >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 > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >================================= >Send a Message to the List - [email protected] >List Archive - >https://list.cotyroneireland.com/empathy/list/cotyronelist.list.cotyroneireland.com >Join the list by sending an email to - >[email protected] >To receive the Digest version, send an email to - >[email protected] >Unsubscribe by sending an email to - >[email protected] >=================================
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