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From: "Paton, Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [ABERDEEN] Ages
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:38:00 +0100


Gavin wrote
"It's a common area of vagueness. But I'm not sure you are right to
assume that, if they gave a wrong (or different) data of birth on
different occasions, that they necessarily did so with the intent to
deceive."

As a father of 6 and remembering what a massive task that turns out to
be when filling these forms in, and lets be honest how many fathers
actually remember all the dates of birth etc (most cant even remember
wedding anniversaries), and my family is small compared to most in those
days, its not too suprising not all ages on censuses are correct.



Best Regards

Martin Paton





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