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Re: Why were ages on 1800s census's so loosely accurate?
« Reply #36 on: Tuesday 06 March 18 17:15 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Sloe Gin. I too have a couple of these short certificates and they were issued some years after the child's birth so I wondered if they had been obtained when the individual was starting work.
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