Grasping at straws fourth line down on "Where born"

[BushInn1746]

Hello

There are others (unrelated) who claim their Birthplace as "Hythe Lancashire" in the Census, so we'll check one and see what Registration District is given.

1861 Census (info from FS)
Adam Bottom CASTLE, Son, age 6, Scholar, born Hythe, Lancashire.

Born about 1855. Bottom I believed was a transcription error and it is.

Looked up in Free BMD

Adam Cottam CASTLE, born 1854 in the Registration District of STOCKPORT.

https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/stockport.html

STOCKPORT Registration District spans LANCASHIRE and CHESHIRE.

Mark

[BushInn1746]

The fourth line down on "Where born" is supposedly the birthplace of my great grandmother. It has been indexed as "Manchester, Lancashire." She was a servant in this household. As far as I can tell from other records, she did not know her exact place of birth, as the only other place given never existed.

The other census I have is the: 1901 census

Annie Richards, age 25, domestic servant, birth place Hythe, Lancashire.

Could this be her with the Brett couple in 1881 at Hainault Road, Low Leyton Essex (District of West Ham), her Mother remarried?

1881
Annie Richards Step Daughter [to the Head], 5 yrs, Born, Manchester, Lancashire.

Got this off Family Search, so the transcription against image of the original and Household members need checking against the information you have already.

If this is the one? You should be able to get the Marriage Certificate (some are already scanned online with FH sites).

But you did speak of two children, one being a male?

Mark

[Girl Guide]

This is the Brett marriage

Marriages Dec 1880 
Brett    Francis William        Yarmouth    4b   53    
Richards    Mary Alice        Yarmouth    4b   53    

[KCB16]

I thought I turned off comments for this? Whatever.

She is not Annie Brett. I have followed Annie Horsely Richards (later Brett) and she married around 1897 in Sussex. I have followed ALL Annie Richards born between 1874-1876.

There is no record of an Annie Richards born in Hyde, Cheshire or any nearby districts between 1870 and 1880.

The census was done in the workhouse. From what I have read, institutions like work houses did not question the inmates. They just put whatever was in their records. Some of places if birth on this workhouse census give addresses rather than places.

I do appreciate a fresh view into this, but I have hired local researchers who are baffled by this case, as my family has been for 80 years.