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Ebba
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'Census' as a name
« on: Sunday 06 January 08 00:34 GMT (UK) »

I was very surprised to discover by chance a young lady called Census Elizabeth Brett! Thought I'd see if there were any more examples of Census being a Christian name, and there are actually a handful of them. The youngest I found was Census Snowdon, 6 hours old in 1901 (in the census, wrongly indexed as Snowdeon).
Among them are Census Knotwell (oh dear!) and Tom Census Crapp (oh dear oh dear!).
Census Elizabeth Brett was married in 1901 and of the 2 choices of men on the register page I do hope her husband was Thomas Tiltman and not Wallace Inskipp Fuggle!
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Re: 'Census' as a name
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 06 January 08 04:49 GMT (UK) »

Faced with the choice of
1) someone was having a little joke, and
2) these are really people's actual names...

I do hope it's 1) Tongue

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Re: 'Census' as a name
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 06 January 08 08:59 GMT (UK) »

It seems to be a joke in several parts of the country Cheesy

The births all seem to be around census time!

Births Jun 1861
WYATT    Census Lucy        Taunton    5c   443
Births Jun 1881
BRETT    Census Elizabeth         Hastings    2b   24
Births Jun 1891
Cornwell    Census George         Hunslet    9b   300
Marriages Mar 1901
BRETT    Census Elizabeth         Rye    2b   10
Births Jun 1901
Snowdon    Census         Auckland    10a   209
Marriages Jun 1924
Snowdon    Census    (Wilson)    Auckland    10a   388


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Re: 'Census' as a name
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 06 January 08 09:36 GMT (UK) »

There's also Henry Census MUCKLEY (though FreeBMD has his birth reg as Henry Cenesus MUCKLE) who was an unnamed 1-day-old baby in the 1861 census: RG9/1795 f 73 p12.

Better, I think, as a middle name than a first Wink

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Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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