Definition please

[imt]

Could anyone please tell me what "childer" means when entered on a census under the relationship column.  Does it mean foster child?

Thanks in advance for your help.

imt

[Arranroots]

Hi imt

Where did you see this?

 

[stanmapstone]

Childer is a rare and obsolete term for 'children'
Looking for 'childer' in the England censuses gives these results
2 in 1851
19 in 1861
0 in 1871
0 in 1881
1 in 1891
0 in 1901
In all the ones I have looked at it is a mis-transcription of child or children. In the case of 'children' all the children in the family have been bracketed together in the relationship column, and 'children' entered alongside the bracket.
Stan

[meles]

You might find this interesting

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-plu1.htm

meles

[imt]

Thanks for these responses.  I must have come across one of the few instances where the word was used in the census in the relationship column.  I don't have the reference number.  That discovery was months ago.  However, my husband came across it again last night where the transcriber had written "childer" for "Hatter" in the occupation section for an ancestor!  It prompted us to find out the definition of childer.  It's odd because we remember the family being recorded in the normal way (son, dau) and then at the end another child being recorded as "childer".  It definitely wasn't lodger or boarder.  The child did not share the same surname as the family which is why we wondered if he was fostered.

I knew you good Rootschat people would come up with an explanation.

Thanks again.

imt

[stanmapstone]

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If so he was a 'nurse child' and had a different name to the family which was Streather. The term 'Nurse Child' is ambiguous, it could cover a child sleeping in a house for one night, or a case of adoption.

Stan