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Census Lookups General Lookups => Census and Resource Discussion => Topic started by: grub on Thursday 11 March 04 15:20 GMT (UK)
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On a recent census search, under "Condition" line, where one usually says Married, Single, Widowed, etc. I found:
One young man whose condition was.......LIVING
Certainly hope so.
Grub
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;D ;D
I have had enough trouble finding some of my family on census returns without having to worry about them listing the deceased members of the family. ::)
Kazza.
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Hi! Grub
Seeing you have a sense of humour, thought you would like these.
Go to the family search site
http://www.familysearch.org/
Try typing in these surname in the 1881 census
Lemonade
Soda Water
or
Christian name - Sea Surname - Breeze
Christian name - Bottle Surname - Beer
Christian name - Flying Surname - Jib
Christian name - Prince of Surname - Wales
Have fun
Catherine :)
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Thank you, Catherine
:) :) :)
Grub
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Recently I was going through the 1841 census for Loughborough and came across this husband and wife he was 95yrs old and she was 100 so i had a look on the death index and they both died at the age of 103yrs husband in 1847 and wife in 1842. Funniest thing was at 95yrs old he was still an agricultural labourer.
Linda
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Recently I was going through the 1841 census for Loughborough and came across this husband and wife he was 95yrs old and she was 100 so i had a look on the death index and they both died at the age of 103yrs husband in 1847 and wife in 1842. Funniest thing was at 95yrs old he was still an agricultural labourer.
Linda
Hi there
Linda, unfortunately, I do not see anything funny in having to still work for a living at the ripe old age of 95. His occupation as ag Lab means he was in one of the lowest working classes, which, without any welfare state means he had to work to survive. Britain was built on this type of worker.
Incidentally, I was born and bred near Loughborough
Chris in 1066Land
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Chris I did not mean funny ha ha I meant the weirdest I had seen. Yes I did feel for him. your not the only one born in Loughborough.
Linda
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Hi! Linda
For a second there, I thought Chris was going to say he was born 1066
No, it just feels like I was - Chris in 1066Land
What a fantastic age for the times,and what a hard life. When I think of my grandparents they seemed to look very old, and they were only in there late forties. So the age of these two people is amazing. Nowaday they look so much younger.
Catherine ;)
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To reach that age in any era is an achievement.
They must have been of really tough "stuff."
My Nana left us when she was 98, and I hope to grow up just like her. :) Might just stand a chance as Mum is making plans for her 90th birthday coming up soon.
Saw one census where person was stated to be "relative", not nephew, niece or the like....wonder if he/she was the black sheep?
Grub
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Hi,
I have a similar situation in my family. I have John Lowther born 1755 and Mary Steward his wife born 1750 they both died within 2 weeks of each other in 1843. On the 1841 census for Wigton they are both listed as potters, apparently in Cumberland a potter is a travelling dealer, a travelling salesman I guess. They are apparently from a line of gypsies that settled in the area.
I can't imagine how hard that would be at such an age.
There are some good stories from this website from a 1901 newspaper - some funny, some sad.
http://www.wirksworth.org.uk/A20-1901.htm
Cheers,
Pam