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From: "peter byford" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Age difference on census - help please ?
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 18:51:51 -0800
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Glenda,

My grandfather died in 1955 aged 79 , I was with him and one of his last
words was the he was sad not too have made 80 years.

Years later when I researched my family history I found his birth
certificate at St Catherine's House. He was born in 1872, he was 83 when he
died - he was reasonably well educated and part of a large family yet
somewhere along the line he lost 4 years!

We have been trying to find my wife's grandmother's birth for over 20
years. She married in 1920 aged 27, she died in 1927 aged 35. However she
appears on the 1901 census as aged 12! She lost 4 years between 1901 and
1920 apparently .

I often wonder whether there was something significant about being 4 years
younger in the early part of the 20th Century.
Cheers,
Peter G Byford
please respond to
researching:
BYFORD - Yorkshire and Samuel of 1750s
BAKER - Kent (Edenbridge area)
BERGIN - Kilkenny, Ballysaggarts, Ireland
FINCH - East London
HARRIS - Henry of Shepherds Bush
&Newbold,Warwks
HOLMAN - Sussex,Kent,Surrey,Colorado
HOUSE - Dorset
NOBBS - Isle of Wight & ??( bef 1796)
PIPE -Suffolk
READ - Somerset , Bath
SCOTCHER - Essex
YOXALL - Cheshire
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From: "Glenda Thornton" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Age difference on census - help please ?


> Di
> This is really common. In the 1841 census my gg-grandmother, Frances
PHILLIBROWN, was 9. I have no reason to think that is incorrect. The 1871
census says she's 36. She was 39. The 1881 census says she's 44. She's 49.
The 1891 census says she's 47. She was 59. When she died in 1894 at age 62,
her death certificate says she's 50.
> Her brother, engraver Thomas PHILLIBROWN, vers the other way. In the 1871
census he says he's 49. He was 41. The 1881 census gives his age as 61. He
was 51. At his death in 1909 his age is reported as 90. He was 79.
> These were poor people, struggling to get by. Accurate age was
unimportant.
> I was just going over the census I have collected and notice something
rather strange with my great great grandparents ages. In 10 years Benjamin
went from being aged 50 to 52 and Harriett his wife aged 6 years in ten
years going from 48 to 53.
>
> In the 1881 census 3 Palace Road, Hackney
> Benjamin James aged 50
> Harriett James was aged 48
> and
> in the 1891 census, 3 Palace Road Hackney
> Benjamin James aged 52
> Harriett James aged 53 .
>
> I have double checked and its written that way, can someone please shed
some light on what age they really where? the children's ages between the
ten years is correct.
>
> Hoping for answers :)
> Di
> James / James / Bishop / Harper / Wilsmore. 1800's to now, Stratford,
Essex, Leyton, hackney, London, everywhere.
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