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Places of birth
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Kathlyn | Report | 10 May 2006 14:46 |
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A possible hit is backed by date and husband and wifes names, but place of birth for the husband, if this is my rellie, is the place where they are living at the time of the census. This could be correct for the wife, but the husband was born in Germany, well the Germany that was Germany in 1861, if you understand what I mean. Would it have been the norm for the enumerator to 'assume' that illiterate people, as I am sure my ancestors possible were, were in fact born where they lived at that point in time??? Kathlyn |
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Angela | Report | 10 May 2006 14:50 |
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Yes, it is quite possible that a mistake was made. One of my rellies was born in three different places on three different censuses, and the places were not even close together!! Another one decided on one census that he was born where they were living but on others in a different county. |
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Darksecretz | Report | 10 May 2006 14:52 |
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hiya, i know this isnt gonna help that much, but on various census a branch of my family kept changing the places where they were born, sometimes i guess when asked they just said either same as spouse or wherever they lived at that time, only way really to find out is with a birth cert i'm afraid, or if your lucky a christening/baptism record, and even these can be sometimes wrong hope this helps Julie |
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Angela | Report | 10 May 2006 14:56 |
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This isn't going to help either, but one of my elderly female ancestors must have been asked 'Where were you born' and misheard it as 'What were you born' and replied 'Clewer, Oxfordshire'. Yes, she was born in Oxfordshire but Clewer was her maiden name!!! |
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Kathlyn | Report | 10 May 2006 14:57 |
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Hi Angela, Since starting on this hobby, no torture, I have learnt to take the info gathered with great big pinches of salt. By cross referenceing several times I can then consider that my handed down family history, multiplied by 343 divided by 74 + the first number you started with, could be correct after all. Kathlyn |
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Angela | Report | 10 May 2006 14:59 |
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Absolutely right. Don't forget to add your age and take away your door number!! |
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Kathlyn | Report | 10 May 2006 15:03 |
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Hi all, This particular rellie in the 1861 census was, according to family ledgend, born in Germany , well the Germany that was in the early 1800s. I have him definate on a later that 1861 census where is was listed as being born c1833, but where can I now go to find him prior to landing in the UK?? Kathlyn |
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Denis | Report | 10 May 2006 15:22 |
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Hi Suggest you look at the Anglo-German FHS website. A few ideas there. As I recall there was no centralised registration in what is now Germany, but I could be wrong. Denis. |
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Heather | Report | 10 May 2006 15:25 |
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You may get him on a passenger list coming from erm, Prussia ?to England if you are lucky? |
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