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From: David Geoffrey Watkins <>
Subject: [UK-1911CEN] Attn Dave Jacobs Re 1911 Census
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 02:17:05 -0500


Eilleen

>>>>I'm sure we would all love access to the 1911 earlier than 2012 when we
could all be in wheelchairs<<<Eilleen

Not quite in topic but consider this.

We would all like to survive long enough to see our own name in a census.

I was born in 1930 so the first census I would appear in would be the 1931.

The 1931Census was destroyed by German bombing in 1940,

There wasn't a 1941 Census due to the War.

Thus the 1951 Census is the first one that I will now appear on.

This will possibly be made available in January 2052.

I'll be 121 years old ! (I already use a wheelchair from time to time)

But wait - it could have been worse. I was in the RAF from 1947 to 1975,
and I was in Canada from July 1952 to April 1953 so, had they posted me to
Winnipeg a year or so earlier then I wouldn't have appeared on a UK Census
until 1961 ! <G>

And in 2062 I'll be 131 !

Now, if I'd been born in the US- - - - - - -- ! <G>

Dave Watkins
Nuneaton Warwickshire England
Who enjoyed a visit to Surfer's Paradise whilst on a short detatchment to
the RAAF at Amberley in 1970

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