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Oooh thanks. Will check this out! I know that people were quite often vague about their ages and other details on censuses, which doesn't help researchers like us at all!!! I hate these mysteries. They bug me till its sorted!

I'm completely stumped with this problem, and hope that somebody out there can offer an idea of where I might look next.
Am looking for Mary Breeze, born December quarter of 1856 - Shrewsbury. In 1861 she is living with parents Joseph and Eliza (spelt Breese on this census only), and sister Martha. By 1871 both parents are dead and both sisters are in an orphanage in Bristol. Orphans were sent out to any part of the country on leaving the institution so she could have gone anywhere. Martha is quite easily traceable in subsequent censuses, but Mary seems to have vanished off the face of the planet!! She doesn't appear to have died, but the usual methods of finding a woman who has married have all failed. I don't know whether she might have gone abroad or not, or maybe married and then died before the next census. Does anybody have any tips on how I might crack this conundrum? Thanks

There's an Emma Slocombe living at Freeland Cottage in 1841, the year before this death. She was only 15 though. A bit young to be registering a death perhaps, but its beginning to all fit I think

Can anybody help me to decipher a few words on this death certificate please?
I can make out:
The Clifton Union
Stapleton
Twelfth June 1842 at  (something) place Stapleton, James Hall, male, 14 years, consumption, Emma (something) present at the death (something) place, Fifteenth June 1842.
Registrars name isn't important.
Thanks

I think it must be an actual disease and not that folk were covering it up and not reporting it when they should have. Other newspaper reports carry the same terminology including one which says "the Berlin Post asserts that Prince Baldwin died of suppressed smallpox and that two other persons residing in the palace died of the same disease" and another in Leamington in 1875 - a medical report - which mentions it as a specific condition. It could possibly be that they are infected but don't have any spots.