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Title: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: suitcase on Thursday 02 August 12 15:52 BST (UK)
Hi,

Hope I have managed to attach it successfully!

Line 5 is the one I am stuck on - Mary Ann Richards,  Daughter. Am assuming she died but can't work out what is written in the age box - can anyone help?

Many thanks
Suitcase
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
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Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: suitcase on Thursday 02 August 12 17:44 BST (UK)
oh, apologies, I'll try to work out how to only post a small snippet - does this work?

Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: bristolloggerheads on Thursday 02 August 12 18:21 BST (UK)
My guess would be 9 months.
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: dobfarm on Thursday 02 August 12 18:56 BST (UK)
Just ---Month
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: sillgen on Thursday 02 August 12 20:33 BST (UK)
Have you tried looking for birth or death registrations?
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: suitcase on Thursday 02 August 12 20:34 BST (UK)
yes, can't find birth or death registration for 1910-11 or years close to those in Pembrokeshire. Must admit have not done extensive search but nothing came up when I did a quick one...was hoping to be able to make out what it said to get more definitive date!
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: mauricej on Thursday 02 August 12 20:49 BST (UK)


There's a death of a Mary Ann Richards in March quarter 1908, aged 1 year, in Haverfordwest.

Ref: Haverfordwest  11a  895.

Haverfordwest registration district includes Brawdy


Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: suitcase on Thursday 02 August 12 20:51 BST (UK)
oh, I didn't go back to 1908...sounds like that could be her
thanks so much for that mauricej :-)
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: mauricej on Thursday 02 August 12 20:57 BST (UK)


.....then this, perhaps, is her birth:-

Mary Anne Richards,   
   
Birth March 1907 - Haverfordwest  11a  1327



Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: suitcase on Thursday 02 August 12 20:58 BST (UK)
yes, I just found that once I had the death to go on :-)

will order the certificates and see. very sad - would have been my grandfather's little sister

thanks again all,
Suitcase
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: dobfarm on Thursday 02 August 12 22:31 BST (UK)
Then why would she appear!  ??? then be crossed out on the 1911 census.

I could understand if she had just died days before just before or even on the census date ~ I think the parents wouldn't have said her name out of habit unless she had just died of recent.
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this census return for me?
Post by: Colin Cruddace on Friday 03 August 12 00:59 BST (UK)
Probably just confused by the questions in the 1911 census, which asks for number of children born to this marriage and how many are still alive.

When listing their children, the deceased were included with their projected age, but there was no provision for date of death.

They did their best to provide the required information, which wasn't quite right, and was crossed out somewhere along the line. It's impossible to say if this was before or after it was handed in, but these mistakes can be an unexpected boon to researching the family.

Colin