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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Thursday 29 February 24 16:02 GMT (UK) »Another myth is that the ages on census records and birthplaces should be accurate. Not so I am afraid, as we well know, people may not have known exactly how old they were or where they were born, often giving where a younger sibling was born, or where they grew up. I found out my 2xgreat gran was born in Sussex but her parents moved to London in 1864 and she always gave that first part of London they lived in as her birthplace in 1871-1921 census. I wonder if she ever found out the truth, the way I myself, her 2xgreat grandson did in 2004. She was still a Londoner though as she lived there from early infancy to her 1943 death and lived in Stoke Newington, Bow, Lambeth, Walworth, Holborn and Islington and Camden.
Precisely! However, in my current line of research it was giving the PoB of an elder sister. The sister was born in Tidenham, just 11 months before the brother was born in Chepstow. In 1921 he gave his PoB as Tidenham (Tidenham Parish and Chepstow are adjacent settlements, separated by the River Wye, which forms the Wales-England border).